First Ledes: Overall

On this assignment, since it's the first one I gave you a 4.0 simply for finishing the assignment without any fatal fact errors, as defined by the syllabus (if you did have a fatal, sorry but that's an automatic 1.0) and if you did assignment parameters correctly, like doing the correct items or staying within the 30-word limit (each such mistake resulted in a 1.0 deduction).

And you weren't graded for AP Style rules, though I did note them in your returned graded work (in which my comments were inserted in BOLD FACE/CAPS). 

In future assignments, we will actually grade every item. But for this first one, I wanted you all to get used to writing on deadline, and for us to have some blog material to go over to see what we did well (and why it was good), and what we could have done better (and how).

So after we do a particular assignment, it's critical that we review ALL related blog posts to go over those points. Not just ones with your work or random ones. All the posts on the same assignment should get a look-see from you, every time.

One more thing: in your graded work I may have used the word sted. It's sometimes a journalistic editing abbreviation for instead, FYI.

Off we go, then: