Current Events Linked Essay
Choose one of the subjects I've introduced on this page
Research the subject, and on your own blog, write a richly-linked blog entry that presents a thoughtful essay that presents your findings on that general issue. Do refer to the links I suggest, but go beyond those links, and teach your peers (and me) something that we wouldn't know if we had only read those links that I provided.
Include reference to outside sources, but try to link them seamlessly into your own sentences. Rather than quote long passages from the sources you discuss, present brief quotations, or summarize the main idea in your own words, but also include a link to where your reader can find the full text to which you are referring.
The "Clueless Newbie" blog entry is one example of a richly linked essay. Such an essay functions on several levels. First of all, it's a traditional essay -- if you printed it out without reading any of the links, you'd get a main idea, supported by evidence, and working towards a single conclusion. You can also use the links to trace my ideas back to the original sources that I cite.
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Jed Fetterman on Current Events Linked Essay: That is harder than it looks. I think that I migh
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KevinHinton on Current Events Linked Essay: What would you choose... A soundbite or a well-wri
ENJOY!
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DenamarieErcolani/2008/09/online-lingua-f.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DenamarieErcolani/2008/09/online-lingua-f.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DaniellaChoynowski/2008/09/another_vault_2.html
Well, come one, come all.
What would you choose... A soundbite or a well-written article.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KevinHinton/2008/09/do-we-measure-o.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AjaHannah/2008/09/everyone_else_is_using_it_why.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JacquelynJohns/2008/09/the_other_english_language.html
It's common, because it's a problem...
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MeganSeigh/2008/09/one_way_to_fail_a_class.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AndrewLoNigro/2008/09/email-hacking-1.html
Took much longer than I anticipated...but it was fun! Wound up writing from a different angle than originally planned.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristinaCelona/2008/09/chatspeak_short_and_sweet.html
That is harder than it looks. I think that I might have been a little link happy in the beginning, and I failed to make a strong argument throughout the whole piece. What do you think?...
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JedidiahFetterman/2008/09/what_should_i_allow_you_to_say.html
When will the tricks in elections go away?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChelseaOliver/2008/09/email-hacked-by-college-studen.html
Quite interesting to have done.
Quite wonderful to be done.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AlexandriaHull/2008/09/death_to_netiquette_abusers_na.html
Gotta love politics...
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessicaKrehlik/2008/09/who_ever_said_the_internet_was.html