Final round of peer-to-peer feedback

Dear students, Once you've completed and posted your own Blog assignment 2 entry, browse those of your fellow students and then, no later than Friday 27 April, complete another round of peer-to-peer feedback according to the 2+1 system prescribed for the first round. (Please note that new next-door neighbours may have emerged since then and that you should go by the current list.) Keep sharing your thoughts and opinions out there and I will keep reading them with customary verve. Andy

Blog assignment 2

Dear students,

Thanks for your interesting short-term and long-term predictions/aspirations plus your reflections in connection with these!

As much as I like providing or linking to food for thought, I will give you free rein to reflect on anything in your second and final blog entry for this course. And I do mean anything - your entry doesn't even have to be remotely connected to business or science as long as it's written in coherent English. Posting deadline: 13 April.

Keep up the good work out there and enjoy your hard-earned freedom,

Andy

Next, read and react to peer entries!

Dear students,

Thanks for the interesting thoughts and predictions you've shared with us so far - keep them coming!

Your next e-mission is to browse blog entries via the 'Blogging students' section on the right and then comment on the thoughts and predictions of your next-door neighbours (that is, the one listed right above you and the one listed right below you) + at least one other listed student of your choice. You're free to comment on whatever aspect(s) you want (including linguistic ones if you feel competent/confident enough) in as much detail as you like.

If your next-door neighbour(s) should fail to meet the posting deadline, it's no longer your duty (but still your right) to comment on their work. As long as you comment on at least three blog assignment 1 entries in total by Friday 16 March, you can safely choose to ignore overdue ones.

As for myself, I'll read all course-related blog entries + comments even if I'm unable to actually mark and comment on anything besides your regular coursework.

Enjoy your reading and commenting,

Andy

Blog assignment 1

Dear students,

In your first blog entry for English for Business & Science II, you're asked to speculate about one or more aspects of daily life that you think and/or hope will emerge, change substantially or disappear altogether – whether locally, regionally, nationally, internationally or beyond – within each of the following time periods:

i) 1-5 years from now, and
ii) 6-50 years from now.

Also explain on what basis your predictions are made. Posting deadline: Friday 4 March.

That's the long and the short of it! :-) Enjoy your thinking and writing,

Andy

How to get started

Dear students,

This is just a quick entry to start the ball rolling. If you already have a blog account up and running from the previous level, please send its address as a comment on this blog entry and I'll link to it in the 'Blogging students' section on the right.

If you don’t have a blog account yet, I suggest you create one at http://www.blogger.com (especially if you already have a Google account) or ask your fellow students if they can recommend a particular blog host. Whatever your choice, please make sure that I can link to your blog and that your readers are allowed to post comments on your blog entries.

If you have / sign up for a Blogger account and don't want anybody except your teachers and class mates to be able to find and read your blog, i) log into your account, ii) select the blog you will use for this course, iii) click on the Design link, iv) open the Settings tab, v) scroll down the page to the questions 'Add your blog to our listings?' and 'Let search engines find your blog?' and, vi) switch the answer to 'No' for both.

That's all for now. See you online,

Andy