Hello,
I'm reading (and enjoying) a whole other truckload of blog-journals. While it's true that I haven't read a single dull one, some certainly seem to be turning out longer than others. I thought I would provide some guidelines here to help.
Students working toward the 4C credit should be trying for journals of about 350 words. 4U students should be trying for about 500. I would certainly rather have 300 or 432 polished words (respectively) than 500 words of inflated and redundant composition. You may want to save your posts as drafts for a couple of days and then go back and edit them before you publish them.
Please, if you are having any difficulties at all, leave a comment or a question here. I have left some tips on individual blogs... you are at a point now where you could be helping each other with advice... which is exactly what this space should be doing for us.
Finally, Amy has kindly allowed me to post the link to her blog. She really has done some remarkable work here and I imagine we'll all be reading her column in the Globe and Mail or National Post someday. In the meantime, her blog serves as a great example of lively, polished and reflective writing. You can see her blog at: http://writerscraftjournals.blogspot.com/
If you read Amy's work and enjoy it, please let her know. I am looking forward to featuring more work from other students, particularly as we make our way through the poetry unit.
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