Holy Week

For Good Friday, take a moment to just sit down somewhere quiet and think about the Atonement in your life. Share with us something that occurred to you (and that you're comfortable sharing).

Blog 9!

Imagine for a moment that you are the absolute ruler of the planet for one week. In that week, what would you do to make the world a better place? Use your rhetorical skills to convince us that your chosen reforms will be beneficial.

Blog Post #8: Tell us about something that you learned during your research that's bothering you. It doesn't have to be directly related to your paper. Did you read something that challenged your assumptions about the world? Has it made you change your mind? Why or why not?

Starting a Conversation

For this post, take as your prompt one of the earlier posts on someone else's blog. Find something that sparks your interest or imagination, and respond to what your classmate has said.

Starting at the Very Beginning: Idea Generation.

Research Ideas. Using two or three of the ideas you generated in class, free-write for at least ten minutes. Remember that free-writing isn't for an audience, so there are no rules. Just keep typing anything that comes into your head related to your topic, to help generate a topic on which you'd like to focus. 

Out of the Best Books

Tell us about a piece of writing that has impacted your life. It could be something you wrote, something you read, or even something you wish that you'd written. What was the text, and how did it affect you and your choices? (For this exercise, I'm going to forbid quoting scripture. You all already know that words of scripture can be transforming. I want to push you beyond that, to see the hand of God not only in holy writ but also in "the best books" and the skill of your own pen.)

Blog Post #4: The Truth Shall Make You Free

Go forth to the internetz and find us a fallacious argument. It could be on a news website, a Facebook conversation, or an e-mail. (Comment sections are usually helpful.) In your post, explain the context, quote the argument, and explain to us what kind of argument it is and why it's fallacious. Extra brownie points if you reply to the fallacious argument in the original forum and tell us what you said.