Welcome...and initial guidelines...

This blog will be used in the spring of 2008 by 80+ students at Drexel University to investigate the effects of Iraq on culture and the reverse. Our goal will be to better understand why the US is in Iraq, and to question whether literature can help us on this journey.

Weekly plans and other materials will always be posted in Vista, not this blog. So go to Bb Vista to get the discussion prompts and other instructions.

I intend this blog to manage our discussions and track our collective investigation.

You should have received an email from me inviting you to become a contributor to this blog. The email was sent Monday afternoon to your official Drexel email address.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Guardian.CO.UK

The Guardian is a newspaper that seems to have a very big following in the UK area. The site that the blog http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/diary/ comes from, is a branch of this newspaper. The Guardian by the looks of it, spans a large spectrum of subjects. Of these subjects, the US has it's very own section on the site. Also on this site are blogs that users (or employees) create. Just like the one I'm reading now.

So the blog is basically a collection of links from writers picking certain articles (usually their own) to post. The authors, from what I've seen, are professional writers for the newspaper or the Guardian Website. What is cool is that some of the authors are actually in Iraq and have their own personal stories.

Since the blog is a collection of other articles. it doesn't have much more than a basic summary of the article within the posts. So there isn't really room for a tone. The blog is also not up to date. The last of the posts is from April 28th. So it seems like the blog is focusing on main stories or really good articles to post. It acts sort of like a filter. Choosing only what the writers feel should go onto it.

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