As promised, I just e-mailed everyone invitations to become authors on the blog. You should accept; you are required to make some blog posts as part of your independent unit.
Moreover, in addition to answering the questions I pose on the blog, you can now
* ask questions of your own for your classmates to respond to,
* expose your ignorance and give your classmates freedom to do the same,
* reveal your erudition and give your classmates helpful background,
* try to nail down answers to interpretive close-reading questions,
* muse about big-picture issues,
* question authority,
* identify useful connections between present-day texts and C18 literature,
* say what you didn't get to say in class,
* clarify a thought that you fear you expressed poorly in class,
* and so on.
Generally, blog posts that contribute meaningfully to the ongoing semester-long conversation about later C18 literature (with solid grounding in the material we're reading) will get blog credit, as will thoughtful and well-supported responses to those posts. Particularly good questions will earn cookies for the class. Recipes, pet photos, irrelevant YouTube clips, and the like will not get blog credit (though we will no doubt find them amusing and it's a fine way to get familiar with Blogger if this medium is new to you). Offensive or obnoxious posts (anything that would cause your classmates to avoid using this blog as a tool for their learning--not that I anticipate any trouble of this kind!) will end the offending poster's authorship privileges.
I will continue to post questions for the class to respond to.
Feel free to respond to this post with any questions about blog authorship.
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