What Am I Supposed To Do?

To be clear, a blog is a collection of short personal essays. It is a personal opinion about a specific topic or event. Some of you have chosen blog topics that are similar to, or the same as, your Extended Essay topic. This is fine. Doing research for your essay, will allow you to do research for your blog. You will "kill two birds with one stone" to use a popular English idiom. However, you can't use the same writing style. A blog is not a formal essay, and it may not be written like one. That said, your blog is published writing. It should be error free and follow the conventions of spelling and grammar.

Your first blog posting will be due on Tuesday, January 15th. It should be about 200 words in length. In this posting you will introduce your topic and you will explain what you hope to learn about it in the coming months. Talk about how difficult or easy it has been to find information. Address some obvious trends or differences you see between North American coverage and media from your home. In short, summarize what you will be doing with your blog.

In addition, you should link your classmate's blog to your own. This too, will be due on 15 Jan.