Homework answers / question archive / assignment for this week in Crafting the Personal Essay is the following: Chapter 20, "Blogging and the Essay" Chapter 23, "On Publication, Rejection, and Being Stubborn" General posting guidelines this week: Please post a Primary Post in response to the discussion topic(s) below; as well as a thoughtful Reply to another person's post

assignment for this week in Crafting the Personal Essay is the following: Chapter 20, "Blogging and the Essay" Chapter 23, "On Publication, Rejection, and Being Stubborn" General posting guidelines this week: Please post a Primary Post in response to the discussion topic(s) below; as well as a thoughtful Reply to another person's post

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assignment for this week in Crafting the Personal Essay is the following:

• Chapter 20, "Blogging and the Essay"
• Chapter 23, "On Publication, Rejection, and Being Stubborn"

General posting guidelines this week: Please post a Primary Post in response to the discussion topic(s) below; as well as a thoughtful Reply to another person's post. You may write your primary post and reply in either order. One post is due Thursday, and one is due by Sunday. Each post is worth 10 points, for a total of 20 points. 

To ensure a cordial style, please remember to greet your classmates and sign your name in your posts.

Specific Guidelines for this Discussion

In Chapter 20, "Blogging and the Essay," Dinty W. Moore writes about the benefits and expectations of keeping a blog, an online, open-access medium for writing on a topic of interest. He emphasizes the importance of keeping a regular schedule of writing, and reaching out to readers with topics of real interest to them (208-213). And in Chapter 23, "On Publication, Rejection, and Being Stubborn," Moore discusses some qualities writers need to have in order to publish their work, including a real enjoyment of writing, being familiar with the magazines or other publications one is submitting work to, and having persistence in the face of rejection (226-233).

After reading Chapters 20 and 23, please write about an experience you've had with blogging or publishing your work to a wider audience, whether in a blog, in print, or another medium.

Publishing in the context of this discussion topic means anything you've written and presented to a wider (more than classroom-sized, ideally) audience, either in print or digital form.

For example, maybe when you were seven years old, you published a poem in your elementary school newsletter. Or maybe you keep a food blog, and you publish occasional entries about recipes and cooking strategies on this blog. You may publish Tweets or Facebook posts about news or family events.

Or (drawing from an example above) maybe you've published a letter to the editor of your local newspaper and saved a copy of it on your fridge!

If blogging or publishing is something you have yet to experience, please feel free to write about a blogging- or publishing-related experience you might look forward to in your future.

Citing your source(s): Please include in your post at least one specific reference to Chapter 20 and/or Chapter 23. Please refer to the guidelines in Format for Citing Sources in Your Writings.