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15 Writing Emails and Blog Posts

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Writing Emails and Blog Posts

Start-Up Activity

To introduce this chapter, display some sample emails and blog posts. Ask students about their experiences with these two forms and how they might use them in school and in other situations. Then read and discuss page 113.

Encourage students to write email messages to you whenever they have questions or concerns about their coursework. Also, if you don't have one already, consider starting your own classroom blog. Blogging is a great way to inspire a passion for writing, as it provides students with an immediate, interactive, and authentic audience. 

Think About It

“Blogging is, in many ways, writing out loud.”

—Andrew Sullivan

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Writing Guidelines: Email

Review the process-based guidelines for writing emails when a formal or semiformal level of language is required. Recommend that students follow this process when they need to send email messages to teachers, school administrators, city officials, experts, or other authorities. They should also follow this process for any message with a serious topic. Point out that writing in these circumstances is similar to writing a business letter.

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Sample Email

Ask for a volunteer to read the sample email out loud. Then identify and discuss the key parts of the email:

  • Subject Line
  • Salutation
  • Beginning
  • Middle
  • Closing
  • The writer’s name

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Writing Guidelines: Blog Posts

Review the process-based guidelines for writing classroom blog posts when a semiformal level of language is required. Narratives, articles, essays, and responses to prompts can be published in the form of classroom blog posts.

Download and distribute the “Blog Revising and Editing Checklist” to help your students know what sorts of questions to ask before they post on your classroom blog.

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Sample Classroom Blog Post

This sample post is a response to a teacher’s prompt. Read the prompt and then ask for a volunteer to read the student’s response. Note that the writer effectively informs his audience (his classmates) with plenty of interesting details. Also note that the blog post contains a link to a graphic.

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