Dear students,

Your first draft of your individual blog posts are due this Friday at 9am.The more complete and polished a draft that you turn on Friday, the more valuable peer-feedback you will receive. Taking advantage of multiple rounds of revisions to your blog post will help you to improve your writing skills and will hopefully help you to craft a clear and compelling piece of writing that you can be proud of.

Please bring 3 copies of your individual blog post and three copies of your authors note to class to hand out to your peers for feedback. Please also read the revisions guide.

The authors note is an opportunity for you to share with your peer-revision partner, the strengths of your writing and the areas that you seek to improve or would like specific feedback on.The revisions guide explains the different kinds of feedback that you might want to provide for your peer-revision partners blog post draft.

Your individual blog post should meet the following requirements:

• The body of your article should be no longer than 1000 words
• You should include at least 1 photo. Be sure to check photo permissions and credit the photographer if it is not your photo. DO NOT use images from the Internet without permission from the originator of the content.
• Feel free to include video or links to other content on the internet. The more interactive a blog post is, the better.
• Each post should include at least 5 references. Two must be from the peer-reviewed scientific literature. The other references may be books, magazine or newspaper articles, or links to reputable sources on the internet.
• We will use Science citation format. Complete guidelines for this format can be found here: https://www.sciencemag.org/authors/instructions-preparing-initial-manuscript

Good luck!

Lalita and Krishna