Blogging Tasks

The next blog tasks are meant to push you to utilize your writing skills in a different level and enhance your critical thinking and analytical skills - both are requisites to successful academic writing. Through accomplishing these tasks, you become a medium for increasing access to quality information. You will have to take accountability for the information you post on your blog so make sure you GET THE FACTS and present them ACCURATELY and TRUTHFULLY.

The task is for you to write an expository essay. Read these writing tips on expository essay writing. This was one of the kinds of writing introduced to you in your English 1 class.    

Post the tasks on your blogsite. Be sure to write the name of your co-author.

Task 1:

Work with a partner. Read about the Sendong aftermaths news and write-ups. Check out online as well as printed materials on this topic. Choose an issue you would like to write about based on your readings of the aftermaths. Conduct a one-on-one interview of the person/s involved to get a better grasp of the issue at hand. You may interview NGO volunteers, LGU officials or healthcare workers. Ask permission for possible disclosure of information. Be sure to verify information gathered. You may or may not cite the person/s name/s you interviewed especially when they do not want to be mentioned.

Be sure to focus on one or two issues only and expressed your informed reaction or ideas on the facts presented.

Here's a sample expository blog of the Sendong Typhoon in Cagayan de Oro City.  

Task 2:

Work with the same partner. Interview a Sendong survivor and ask permission to feature his/her/their story in your blog. Write a news feature about the survivor's plight or condition then and now. Be sure to make your readers understand his/her/their situation.

Task 3:


Comment on two of your classmate's blogs.


Keep writing. Keep blogging. Keep up. Keep on.