Thursday, January 14, 2010

Thoughts and Tips for your future posts

I commented on each of your first posts. On the whole, they look good! I thought I'd offer some helpful tips, though, that you may find useful.

1. Write your posts as if you are writing and submitting a paper. In other words keep in mind your spelling, grammar, etc. Use quotes or the quote feature in blogger if you are quoting from another source.
2. Remember that Microsoft Word has a spell check. You could create your posts in Word, run the spell check, and then copy/paste to a blog post if necessary. This is not a requirement, but it may help you with spelling.
3. Don't let your edit mode sit open for too long - it may time out. If you have written a long post and go to publish it, you may end up losing it because you were in the edit mode for too long. Save yourself the frustration. You can always right a bit, publish it, and then edit the same post. This is like saving it periodically.
4. Your posts in the future will be a bit more analytical, longer, and feel free to link to more than one source.

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