Some suggestions for blog posts

You're welcome to write about anything at all in your blogs, but over the course of the Writing Skills module, we'll be hoping to see evidence of self-reflection through your thoughts on your own writing and academic skills.  I will post some questions from time to time, and I'll also make suggestions for blog topics in my comments on your blogs, but here are a few prompts to start you off (if you haven't already done so):

- what, in your opinion, are your strengths and weaknesses as a writer?
- what do you expect to gain from completing the Writing Skills module?
- what kind of texts do you feel confident about writing?
- how confident do you feel about completing written assignments for your university studies?  Do you expect university writing to be different to anything else you've done before?  If so, in what way do you think writing tasks might be different at university?
- is there a particular writer whose style you admire?  Who is the writer?  Can you identify what it is about their style that you particularly like? Do you think that you can learn to write in a similar style?
- what advice have you been given on writing style in the past?  Do you think that this was good advice?