Writing from conversation

We'll start off by reviewing some of your posts on blogs and continuing our conversation on "what is a blog?"

Here is my entry, a blog by a trade journalist. I specifically chose it as I think it will fit in well with our discussion on writing from conversation.

Here is an example of a student practicing writing from observation. What do you see as its strengths and weaknesses?

The above example is a fairly traditional approach to writing from conversation. But what about mediated conversations? How do we think about, or write about conversations on YouTube, Blogs, email, IM, or the myriad of other ways people converse in the digital age?

Thus far print authors have either summarized the dialog, or reverted to a traditional quotation style of writing. Can we do better?

Here is a tip sheet on the use of quotation marks, they do get tricky.

For Tuesday, write about a conversation in your blog, but use the tools available to you. We'll discuss this in class.