Post date: Aug 07, 2012 7:27:42 PM
Overview
In your professional blog (journal), you should include posts that respond to the prompts provided by your instructor. You may also include separate posts that reflect what you are learning from your courses, co-curricular experiences, internships, etc. Feel free to use the journal as you see fit, remembering that it should reflect your professional voice. Later in the semester you will integrate your entries into the ChemE-folio, linking each post to an appropriate communication or chemical engineering competency.
Guidelines for Creating a Professional Blog
Disclose information judiciously for online publication.
Choose a name and address that does NOT reveal personal information. You do not have to include your full name on your journal if you wish to keep your posts completely anonymous. However, you may wish to include your name in order to increase your networking visibility. (Throughout the course we will discuss the pros and cons of different kinds of online publication.) Though you are not required to include your name on the journal, you must tell me which site is yours so that I can evaluate your work.
Complete your profile conservatively. Include only the information you would not mind a potential employer or anyone else seeing.
Use privacy settings to control the traffic to your professional journal.
Edit your work. Write and revise your writing according to the guidelines you are learning in the areas of paragraph development (including topic sentences, cohesion and coherence), style, tone, and grammar, punctuation, and usage. Use the rubric designed for each post to check your work before submission.
Apply what you have learned about document design and graphics. Use the wysiwyg tools (what you see is what you get) located on the toolbar to make your entries attractive AND to direct your reader’s attention to the most important points.
Apply what you have learned about developing each topic. Use the guidelines provided by the instructor and in the course materials for the topic you are developing. For example, if you are developing a set of instructions, your post should follow all of the guidelines for writing instructions found in the textbook, your notes, and handouts provided by the instructor.
Revise for final review. Rewrite each based upon instructor comments and peer review feedback for final inclusion in your ChemE-folio.