How to Write 750 Words on Blogging

I've been peeping in on my some of students' blogs recently and I found some concerns over the next assignment. They ask how to write 750 words about blogs. On the off-hand chance that any of them actually look at my blog, I thought I'd give some hints.

First, don't set out to write 750 words. If you focus on the word count, you are focusing on the wrong thing. Instead, start by figuring out what you are going to say.

On thing that you might try is re-reading the assignment sheet. There are a list of questions that are designed to get you strarted. You might try freewriting about each question to see what you have to say. Then, you can develop the one that is most promising.

Again, if you are worrying about the word count before you start to write, then you are putting the cart before the horse. The word count is a measurement to help you. Yet, not all 750 words are the same. If you have 750 words that don't say anything, then you will still not receive a good grade. First and foremost, you need to develop your thesis.

Last, if you haven't been doing the blog (or haven't done it very much), you really don't have many experiences from which to draw. If that is the case, I really don't have much advice for you. This is not something that you can do in a weekend. You really needed to be keeping the blog throughout the semester. Keeping up with your blog was a way to develop the material for this assignment. Without that material, I really don't know what you will write about.