WELCOME TO THE CLASS!

This is the first time Renton Technical College has offered "Writing for Life, Work, and College" for ESL students. We will be dividing our time between grammar points and organizational aspects of writing in English to make you better writers in a variety of situations. Once you have learned the basics, you can apply them in all kinds of writing.

The first step in this course is to open your own blog. Go go blogger.com and follow the directions. Remember your username (email) and password!!! After you have started your own blog, please write a 5-10 sentence self-introduction in a "new post". Then, click the orange "publish post" tab at the bottom of the page. Then you can view your blog. ALWAYS RE-READ WHAT YOU WROTE! If you see a mistake, click the back arrow and go back to edit the post, then publish it again. You can also check your spelling with the "abc" logo on the top of the post. The last step in the assignment is to send me the link to your blog (the URL) in an email. I will make links to your blogs here, so you can visit each other's blogs easily.

We will use the blogs for writing and Quia for grammar activities, and a few other websites as well. We will be working on multiple aspects of writing throughout the course.

As always, if you have any problems along the way, don't hesitate to email me.

- Liz