Blogs+-+Non-negotiables

Welcome to the land of Blog. Here you will express yourself in ways you never imagined possible, and you will do so using all appropriate forms of English grammar.  As a young scholar there are a few rules that you should keep in mind regarding blogging. Foremost, keep in mind that you are not texting your friends nor hanging out in a chat room nor surfing on Facebook. You must express yourself as if you were writing on paper in your classroom and turning the assignment in to your classroom teacher. You should also remember that what you contribute to the blog will become part of your digital footprint. It will never go away. You will be dust in the wind and your words will still exist in the atmospheric world of cyberspace. So, think about what you want to say and how you want to say it. 

 Here are some fundamental rules that will help you to be a good blogger and blog well:   : Make sure that you stay within the appropriate subject confines of the blog as laid out by the classroom teacher. 
 * Your ideas should make a direct connection or link to the ideas being expressed on the blog. For example, speaking about glacial meltdown on a blog about climate change is appropriate, but discussing the relative length of girls skirts in relation to rising temperature is not appropriate.

 : Your ideas will gain credibility if they have evidence to suppport them. You should use appropriate in-text citation and give credit where credit is due. 
 * Make use of appropriate grammar, spelling, sentence structure and all other rules regarding standard written English.