Continuing Education Course Finder: ENGCS11-1a

The Art of the Blog (ENGCS11-1a)

Status: Open

Fee: $240.00

Timing: 6 sessions from October 7, 2009 - November 18, 2009 on Wednesday, 7-9pm no class 11/11

Course Description: In this course, participants will create and launch their own blog. Together, we will look at some very successful blogs on different themes—including sports, politics, and parenting—and discuss how the writers create an audience, how they cultivate a blogging voice, how they elicit comments from their readers. Whether you would like to use a blog to promote a business, to connect with others in your community, or simply to chronicle your days, this course will help you make your first foray into the blogosphere. In six weeks, we will go from the nuts and bolts of blogging to the art of writing online. Students should have access to a computer with an internet connection.

Instructor(s): Darcie Dennigan

Instructor(s) Bio: Darcie Dennigan has been a blogger for the Kenyon Review. Her writing has been published online and in print by the Atlantic Monthly, The Believer, The Poetry Foundation, Tin House, and others, and her collection of poetry, Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse, won the 2007 Poets Out Loud Prize. A recipient of a “Discovery”/The Nation award and a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference fellowship, she has an MFA from the University of Michigan.