Posted: March 9th, 2017
Decide on a title and thematic topic for your blog. It could be on (almost) anything! Possible blog topics include (but are not limited to): travel journal, international recipe collection, sports news, clubbing photo-journal, original poetry collection, original photography or art gallery
*Create a visual blog website for communicating information to a real-world public at large.
*Decide on a title and thematic topic for your blog. It could be on (almost) anything! Possible blog topics include (but are not limited to): travel journal, international recipe collection, sports news, clubbing photo-journal, original poetry collection, original photography or art gallery, political commentary journal, movie review journal, celebrity gossip journal, or many, many other possibilities. Your only limitation in this regard is that you can’t submit a personal journal for your project— even though this kind of communication is prevalent on the Internet, this project’s goal is for you to practice for a professional environment.
*Make your blog scholarly and/or journalistic.
*Create a blog by going to WordPress.com and opening a free account. Don’t like WordPress? No problem. Your blog can be created in any blog-hosting site.
*Create the following:
*A thematic topic for your blog.
*Five postings of 100 words (minimum) to 200 words (maximum) each. Blog postings should be short and readable in one sitting.
*Proper spelling, grammar and punctuation must be observed.
*Make clearly understandable what part of the story is your original writing and what part is referenced.
*Cite referenced text by using hyperlinks to the original online articles. Long, complex URLs are not meant for us humans, but rather for computers, so don’t make them visible. Instead, link a section of visible text to your referenced URL, like this.
*Quoted material must appear visually different from your original writing. Change font, size, color, indents, etc.
*Online art or photography blogs, or recipe blogs, must include a 100 – 200 word opinion of the artwork or recipes presented.
*Must not be a personal journal about how you woke up and hung out with your friends before going to class. The goal of this course is to prepare students for writing in a professional environment.
*Technology—photos, artwork, embedded YouTube videos, slideshows, radio stations, etc.—must be incorporated into each of the five post entries where appropriate. It’s supposed to be a VISUAL blog for a visual communications class, remember? Incorporate multiple images per posting for full credit.
Respecting Copyrights
You must not infringe upon someone else’s copyright. Anything you post must either be original, or it must fall under Fair Use guidelines:
(1) use of a short quote or paraphrase for review purposes,
(2) must be for a scholarly or academic purpose,
(3) must not impinge upon the profit-making potential of the copyright owner—that is, you must not give away for free what is normally bought and paid for.
Avoiding Plagiarism
As far as academic rules are concerned, you must not, intentionally or UNINTENTIONALLY, represent the work of others as your own. To avoid plagiarism:
(1) Paraphrase in your own words a short summary of the material,
(2) Inject your own opinion,
(3) Provide a hyperlink to the original referenced online material,
(4) If you quote a short passage, make it VISUALLY DIFFERENT (different fonts, sizes, colors or indents) from your original material, so the reader understands that it’s a quote,
(5) Credit the source, including authors, photographers, videographers and artists.
Ware moving from being a verbally-literate society into being a visually-literate one. That’s not to say that people will stop curling up with a good book. However, in most day-to-day communications, people prefer to read short messages, and be entertained, enlightened and emotionally-engaged by images. Once again, make your postings short – about 100 to 200 words each, and be sure to use images that support the text.
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