I did not want to create a Blog.
I did not want to figure it out.
I didn't want to decide on titles, templates or even a signature for my posts.
. . . BUT I'M GLAD THAT I DID :) (and I knew that I would be).
Thank you Professor Wexler.
The process was painless. I love playing with words and enjoyed considering blog titles that could be funny or punny. I chose this simple one, because in our first class as we considered what theory was my first thought was that it was what the author proposed.
After our first class discussion I decided it was so much more than that. Ideas began fun enough but grew overwhelming like “Clearly Theory” “Nearly Theory” “Austerely Theorily” “Merely Theory!?” until eventually “Dreary Theory” and I did not want that. I’m looking forward to this class.
My only real frustration was how to punctuate the above. I can see they needed commas, but where to put them?
I learned some rules like:
“Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks, even inside single quotes.
The placement of question marks with quotes follows logic. If a question is in quotation marks, the question mark should be placed inside the quotation marks,” but I don’t like how it looks.
Someone else had a similar problem:
I want to punctuate a list of questions, all within quotes - ie
He was full of questions: ‘Have you read this book on Pollock?’ ‘Have you
been to MOMA?’ ‘Have you seen the new Derrida book?'
Would I use commas, semi colons or no punctuation (as above) to separate these?
The response was:
I wouldn't use the quotation marks between the questions.
"Have you read this book? Have you been to MOMA? Have you see that movie?"
I agree, here. Perhaps that’s the answer.
What do you think?
PS
I also enjoyed "blog" definitions that encouraged me along the way:
What's a blog?A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. . . enables millions of people to have a voice and connect with others.
