Outside reading: the nitty gritty

Now that you have established a reading group and you have your books, the next step is to get reading and blogging about the book. Here is a list of practical tips to help you along in the process.

1. Decide as a group whether you will blog as you are reading the book or after you complete the book. I encourage you to blog while reading as it leads to better reading, better responses and less procrastination :) There are generic topics listed in the assignment; however, topics that you generate based on your specific book group will be the best.

2. For each blog post identify an issue, question, or quotation that you would like to address in your post. The topic of the post should be easily discerned from the title of the post. Remember, the required number of posts is only five; so, I expect each post to be substantive in topic and polished in its writing.

3. Be sure to include enought text, detail and specifics in your post so that those of us who haven't read the book (me) can follow the discussion.

4. Comment on at least five of your fellow bloggers posts. The best comments generate discussion amongst fellow bloggers.

5. One person from each group needs to post the link to their blog on the class website. Be sure to do this by January 10, 2014.