Blog Post 1 : What's Your Problem?

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Follow the below steps, either in order, recursively, or however you want to approach them, and post a minimum 400 word blog post (about the length of this post) that communicates your thoughts, findings, and experience moving through this topic invention process. You can, of course, go longer than 400 words.

1. Look up the different definitions of the word "community", and then synthesize all these findings into a single, sentence definition of your own words that defines the term in a way that makes sense to you and this project.

2. Brainstorm and list all the communities that you belong to based on your definition. Everyone will approach this differently, but generic examples include: Miami, Florida, U.S., earth, college student, F.I.U., major, field, occupation, gamer, programmer, vaper, ethnicity, race, religion, culture, sexual orientation, gender identity, athlete, sports fan,  music, dance, arts, abilities, disabilities, .... the list keeps going.

3. Choose 2-3 communities from the list (or how many you want really) that interest you the most, in which you have a stake somehow, and for which you think there might be some significant issues worth looking at.

4. Conduct some online research about each of these communities, looking for what the issues and arguments are within that community or issues with how the community interacts with others. This will help to get you thinking about a problematic discussion you can join or start to eventually help make things better.

Keep in mind that this is not a personal journal; rather you are talking about your topic invention experience informally to your classmates--tell them the story of how this activity went down and how you arrived at your list of community problems you could potentially explore.

Also, don't hesitate to include important links and possibly use an image or two!

You blog post will be evaluated based on these questions:
  • Does the post's content demonstrate that the student actively moved through and/or within all these steps in good faith, looking to uncover or discover possible community issues the student could explore? Is it at least 400 words?
  • Is the post organized in a unified and coherent manner? Is it clear why and how one idea, sentence, or section follows the previous? Does all this add up to a clear purpose of sharing the author's thought process to classmates?
  • Is the voice and tone appropriate for a blog post targeted at classmates?
  • Does the title draw the reader in?
  • Is the writing error-free?


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