- Read and comment on your classmates’ posts. As you’ll have noticed in class, there’s so much more to talk about than we can cover in class! This space can be a place to open up some of those conversations.
- Post your own thoughts! This blog is an extension of our class discussions, and it’s also a chance for you to take the time to think an idea all the way through. The format also introduces the possibility of bringing in outside resources: research, for example, that might help you contextualize our texts or offer perspectives with which to think through them; or web-based material (videos, songs, memes, etc.) that might inform our thinking & that you can link to or embed here (check out the + button at the top left of the post editor).
- Check the prompts if you’re feeling a little stuck. Watch this space for evergreen and week-by-week prompts.
- Don’t forget to categorize and tag your posts. One of the things the blog platform can do for us is give us the chance to consider the way things connect to each other. For that reason (and also to make all of our lives easier when we revisit our archive as we create our final project), don’t forget to use the category and tag features when you post! The category should be the genre unit—the short story, the poem, etc. But I encourage you to get creative with your tags—you can add as many as you like! Consider using the author’s name, a word or phrase that references a major idea, etc. So for example, a post on “The Diamond As Big As The Ritz” would be categorized with “the short story,” but could feature tags like “F Scott Fitzgerald”, “close reading”, “historical context”, “abolishing Hades”, “religion”, “dehumanization”, and so on. There’s no limit. (Those tools are in the “documents” tab of the editing tool when you’re posting.)
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ENG 222: Literary Genres 