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Follow these steps as you write your post. Remember to set your content status on your post's wiki page as your enter each stage:
#'''Idea''': Before beginning a blog post, blog writers must get preliminary approval from Anne or Ed. #'''Outline''': After completing research on your postTo propose an idea, set up a wiki page. Include (Blog Post) in the title and make the wiki page using [[Form:BlogPost]]. Describe your idea in 2-4 sentences. Include 3-4 proposed references. Alert Anne and Ed to your proposal once your Idea page is complete. #'''Outline ''': Once your post idea is approved. Conduct further research and outline your proposed post on your wiki page. Your outline should include several subsections including Include your proposed argument or thesis statement, 5-6 supporting points and references. Each supporting point must be back by evidence. References should be included for all of the supporting points. Let Anne know when you have finished your outline.#'''Draft''': Once your outline is approved, draft your post. Include an editable a link to the google doc on your blog post's wiki page. Make sure that this link can be viewed by all rice.edu email addresses and can be edited by Anne and your peer reviewer. Use our the [[Writing and Style Rules]] to improve make sure your writing and make sure it is consistent with the writing style of other posts by the McNair Centerposts.
#'''Peer edit''': During the academic year, drafts are due one week after your idea is approved. Once the draft is ready for review, tell Anne. She will assign you a peer editor. Make sure that this person's name is set in the '''Notes''' field. He or she will make suggestions and return the blog post to the writer. The writer will revise the draft based on these suggestions.
#'''Revision''': Give the revised draft to Anne, completing the same process of suggestion and revision as with the peer editor in Step 1. If any large changes are made in this process, the writer will give the new draft to another available peer editor to check for grammar/content one last time before giving it to Ed. Put whether your post is waiting for or approved by Anne and Ed in the '''Notes''' field. This process may have to be repeated more than once if the blog needs further development. Give the final draft Anne for approval.
