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Notes on Paper 2For our work on Paper 2, you will need to post your work to our class blog site. The following links and recommendations offer further specifics on how to do this.Sample Blog PostsThis sample does a good job advancing an argument through a personal narrative.This sample takes a more scientific approach.Things to Do in Your Blog PostContext. Situate your post in a larger context and conversation. For example, this post on racial profiling makes reference to the specific examples of Khalief Browder, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown (although it would be worth discussing these further so that we have a richer sense for the examples). This post on Buddhism refers to commonplace sayings and beliefs about facing difficult challenges. This post on whether college athletes should be paid draws on the context of March Madness.Embedding links. Do embed links, both for the sources you cite and to direct your readers toward other relevant sources. See these posts for helpful examples: posts on student athletes, inequality in college athletics, religion and politics.Things Not to Do in Your Blog PostPaper 1 and 2. Don’t make reference to Paper 1 or Paper 2 or to our class. Since we are writing blog posts, we want to imagine ourselves writing to a broader public audience, one that doesn’t know or necessarily care about our papers or other aspects of our class. Approach this blog post as a piece of writing that stands on its own.Titles and Headers. Don’t include a header for the paper. Instead, go straight into the content. Be sure to include a title that’s specific to your paper (something other than “Paper 2”) in the appropriate space, not in the blog post itself.SuggestionsEmbedding content. Sometimes writers embed images or videos or Tweets without any explanation; this content just works to supplement or enhance the main blog post by giving readers something else to look at or think about. But I would suggest that you do comment on the content you embed in your post. Think of it like a quote: you are incorporating content from someone else, and it would help to comment on this content and explain how it fits with your thinking. For example, look at the image in this post on anxiety, explaining what anxiety actually feels like. It would be worth taking up the point made by this image and discussing it further in the post. The same note applies to this post on millennials: these differences between millennials and generation x in the workplace would be worth discussing further.Embedding videos. To embed videos in your blog post, go to the YouTube page for your video. Click on “Share” underneath the video, then “Embed.” Copy the HTML code manually or by clicking on “Copy.” Open your blog post so that you can edit it. Above the toolbar, click on “HTML.” Paste the code in the part of your blog post you want the video to appear. Above the toolbar, click back to “Visual.”Flickr. To find images to complement your blog post, try doing a search on Flickr, a photo-sharing site. Narrow your search to “All creative commons” so you can draw on content without copyright concerns. For example, here are the available pictures when you search “student athletes” with creative commons licenses.Edit formatting. Do not include the title or your name in the post itself. Put the title in the title bar; your author name will automatically be included with the post. Align everything on the left side without indents. Include one space between paragraphs. Don’t write out or paste full URLs; instead, embed links. ................
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