Blog Advice

Grading Criteria: Total of 70 points possible

1) Tags: (10 points)

 

Use embedded HTML or technorati tags:

 

<a href=”http://technorati.com/tag/CS292” rel=”tag” class=”techtag”>CS292</a>

 

Or use Categories:

 

Tagless Blog Entry

 

2) <1500 Words (10 points)

 

3) Name in text of blog entry (10 points)

 

4) Grammar / Spelling (10 Points)

 

5) Illustration / Art (10 points)

 

6) Subjective Assessment (10 points)

 

7) On Topic Assigned (10 points)

 

 

What Might Lower a Blog Grade:

Make basic spelling or grammar errors:  The blog is actually less forgiving on errors of omission – as more people read and form opinions more quickly based upon minor errors, it was worth a few extra minutes to step back and then re-read  – I speak from vast experience of moving too quickly on my posts.

  1. “Once Britomart enters through the moat of lames …”
  2. “suspician” instead of suspicion  
  3. “the task to create our own gamspace” [game space]
  4. “the Recrosse knight and Britomart tear up the six nights” [Redcrosse and knights…] — these sort of errors show hurried writing
  5. “The duel controls will always a player …” [dual]

Write awkward sentences: Easy to do, so be careful with this.

  1. “Britomart only has to look a direction, and someone runs by who falls morally beneath her.”  [awkward sentence rendering it difficult to understand]
  2. “flow through their blades and into their opponents the HP bars.”

Not checking Facts:  example: Citing Ronald Dahl instead of Roald Dahl

 

Not signing your pseudonym or name within the blog entry.

 

Not spacing between paragraphs or making the entry less than visually appealing to a potential reader.

 

Not making a point or rambling in apparent aimlessness.