LitMUSE

Now that you have a couple of pages posted to your portfolios, it’s time to join the conversation on the ‘Net. In the current Web 2.0 environment, it’s no longer enough to have a static web site — you must allow for users to participate on your web site, and you must do the same [...]

A major portion of any study of literature or cultural texts is interpretation. For this, there is the blog or forum requirement. Each blog or forum entry should: address a work of literature, text, or topic you have been assigned to read or discuss for class apply a critical approach that we have discussed in [...]

Like to discuss? Argue? Read new ideas and communicate your own? You should then consider using your participation on the class discussion group as one of your portfolio entries. Be sure you keep track of your contributions, especially those that prompt further discussion. For your group participation to count on your portfolio, be sure you [...]

Note: I use the words “journal” and “blog” interchangeably throughout this article. Joan Didion, in her essay “On Keeping a Notebook,” clarifies two important reasons for keeping a journal, reasons that may be applied to your blog: “We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget;” and “Keeping in touch is [...]