Blogging is now a common feature of many university courses: it offers a more relaxed place for students and lecturers to try out ideas; it is quick and "dirty," requiring relatively little time, although offering scope for more serious research and critical thinking if a discussion develops that way; and for our purposes, blogging is also a valuable way to practice writing in English for fluency, where we need not worry so much about formal structure and language as is expected in an essay.
If you scroll down a bit, or look through the list of blog posts on the right, you can get some ideas on how my reading and writing classes in the Academic English Program at AUA use this blog.
And now it's your turn. I hope you find the use we make of the more relaxed response writing we do a here a useful complement to the formal writing we will be doing that culminates in a short research paper about six weeks from now.
But first things first: we want to do a couple of quick exercises to make sure that everyone is comfortable, or at least not too uncomfortable, with the mechanics of blogging using Google's Blogger, which is one of the tools that come with the AUAthailand.org account that actually a Google account.
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