Dear Readers,

Welcome to our course blog for VaST 231!  We will use this space for sharing research, discussing course activities, thinking “out loud,” and publishing polished writing.

To get things started, I’m offering an opportunity to not buy a book.  I have an extra copy of Ted Striphas’s The Late Age of Print, one of our required course texts, and it could be yours.  Here’s how:

Create a post on this blog in which you 1.) include a link to a news article about the president’s Autopen and 2.) give a discussion question based on your reading of the article.

The author of the post with the most comments from classmates responding to the question will receive the book on the first day of class.

Watch for a course syllabus on our Moodle site next week, and in the meantime, enjoy your January, and I look forward to meeting everyone in a couple of weeks.