Dr. Zaini Amir SKBP 1023 23 April 2012 fileHundreds of bloggers writing in English, Malay and Mandarin A host of issues –daily stories, impassioned reactions, mundane details, miscellanea

Dr. Zaini AmirSKBP 1023

23 April 2012

A blog gives you your own voice on the web.

It's a place to collect and share things that you find interesting— whether it's your political commentary, a personal diary, or links to web sites you want to remember.

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Blogging is about more than just putting your thoughts on the web.

It's about connecting with and hearing from anyone who reads your work and cares to respond.

With wordpress.com, you control who can read and write to your blog — let just a few friends or the entire world see what you have to say!

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Many people use a blog just to organize their own thoughts, while others command influential, worldwide audiences of thousands.

Professional and amateur journalists use blogs to publish breaking news, while personal journalers reveal inner thoughts.

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Wordpress.com Comments let anyone, anywhere, offer feedback on your posts.

You can choose whether you want to allow comments on a post-by-post basis, and you can delete any comments you don't like.

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Publishing online using weblog

BLOG

Definition of a weblog

A blog is a personal diary. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.

frequently updated webpage with dated entries

Many subgenres – photo weblogs, food weblogs, diary weblogs, subject-specific weblogs

Issues discussed – anything and everything: politics, social, economics, personal lives

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Word processor

Word count

Flesch Kincaid Grade Level

The Flesch/Flesch–Kincaid Readability Tests

Find/search and replace

Track changes

Spelling and grammar checker

Thesaurus

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It has become a soapbox that allows bloggers to proclaim their views and getting perhaps more audience than they can in their everyday lives

In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what’s new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you.

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Hundreds of bloggers writing in English, Malay and Mandarin

A host of issues – daily stories, impassioned reactions, mundane details, miscellanea

Actually there are many Malaysians out there who are involved, impassioned citizens, articulate, observant.

Comparison with Saudi Arabia: ―Saudi women unveil opinions online‖ : In this country where women are forced to cover themselves in public, are barred from driving, and need permission to travel abroad, it’s small wonder many are embracing the freedom of anonymity on the internet‖ (Rasheed Abou-Alsamh, 2006).

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Learn English with EnglishClub.comOnline club for ESL/EFL students and teachers http://www.englishclub.com/

Learn and Improve your EnglishOnline magazine in easy English for ESL learnershttp://www.soon.org.uk/page17.html

Learning English BBC World ServiceProvides news with audio and video format available. There are discussion groups and quizzes to improve Englishhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.html

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To learn EnglishFree materials to learn or teach Englishhttp://www.tolearnenglish.com

Interesting Things for ESL studentsFun study site for ESL students - word games, word puzzles, quizzes, proverbs, slang expressions etc.http://www.ManyThings.org

Building a Better VocabularyTechniques, tricks, word exercises to help learners building a better vocabularyhttp://www.webster.commnet.edu/grammar/vocabulary.htm

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A Cognitive Process Model

The act of writing involves three major elements

task environment

all things outside the writer, starting with the rhetorical problem and including the text itself

writer’s long-term memory

knowledge of the topic, audience, and various writing plans

writing processes

specifically planning, translating, and reviewing

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Writing Theory and Practice in the Second Language Classroom: A Selected Annotated Bibliography - Torild Homstad & Helga Thorson

Using online corpora to develop students’ writing skills - Alex Gilmore

A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing - Flower & Hayes

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