Dear students, I got a few messages with information about your proficiency blogs already, that's great! Please everybody else who did not do so yet, start a blog at blogger.com and let me know the web address so I can post a list of everyone's blog here in my blog. We will need a complete list before the first peer response assignment. For your first assignment, however, you will receive comments from me.

Assignment 1

1. Find a piece of informal writing and a piece of formal writing, compare the two and list a few features distinguishing the two and telling you which is which. Include an excerpt of each text in your blog post!
2. Write two very short texts on the same topic, using informal language in one of them and formal language in the other. Pick a simple topic - the focus is on the language.

Best,
Anna