Blog Assignments

Blog 1: 

Your writing workflow: A blog post on your writing process and a reflection of what slows you down, or where writer’s block emerges.

Blog 2:

A basic outline of the writing you wish to complete this semester. This blog should include your writing deadlines. I will be keeping you to your deadlines as much as possible.

Blog 3:

Find an article pertinent to your work and analyze the strengths of the literature review.

Blog 4: 

Annotations of 3 articles in 3 Anthropological journals, teasing out the “skeleton” of the written work.

Blog 5: 

Discussion of what makes articles fail and succeed by looking at an excellent article and a weak one.

Blog 6: 
A good presentation…either from within the department, at a conference, or from a YouTube link. (Start thinking about this early in the semester so that you can take advantage of speaking events in the department or elsewhere in your own field!)

Blog 7:
This blog you will pair up with a colleague in a different sub- discipline and produce a short (~8 paragraph) blog on a current issue in the field that cross-cuts the discipline as a whole. I encourage you to start this blog early (note the heavier grade component here!)

Blog 8: 

What constitutes a good peer review?