Review of class 11.13

Just a quick review from class:
1. Your voice is very important. In the new posts that I have read tonight, it is evident that you are on the right track! The story telling, sensory details, and thoughtfulness helps the reader hear your voice.

2. Audience--the class, the instructor, yourself...and of course, now, the audience is also the abstract notion of "the Internet" or as the British say, "T'internet." As I said in class, I don't usually worry about this last audience when I am writing. I like to think of that as the thing that keeps the writing accurate--an imbedded fact checker if you will, one who may or may not give me feedback. On the other hand, your peers and your instructor will give you feedback guaranteed. Lastly, and most importantly, you should be your audience. You should be writing for yourself, to satisfy yourself and your sense of who you are as a writer. You should be proud of your writing...and I am sure we'll all be impressed too! :)

3. In class today, Natalie asked what the red and green dots meant on the site meter map. I just figured that out: red means your last visitor, green means your last 10 visitors, white means your last 10+ visitors. If you want to attach a site meter to your site, just go to this link for site meter.

4. Lastly, I am very excited to read all of your blogs and have your peers read them too. I am very impressed already with your first blog posts and look forward to reading them in the future!

P.S. One last note for the day...my first blog post was 149 words; this blog post is 313 words, so you can use these two posts as general guidelines for your posts--post lengths should be anywhere between these two blog post lengths.