Abstract - final?

Process Blogging

We will discuss blogging as part of the writing process. Through practice (as students) and analysis (as researchers), we examine a teaching strategy that we would like to employ in the basic writing classroom. We will review collaborative approaches to writing, discuss process blogging, and identify student writing development within a collaborative blog.

It is hard to stay within 50 words. Let's write the abstract as if the paper is written--losing future tense cuts down the words.

How about:

We research blogging as part of the writing process. Through practice (as students) and analysis (as researchers), we examine a teaching strategy we hope to employ in the basic writing classroom. We review collaborative approaches to writing, discuss process blogging, and identify student writing development within a collaborative blog.

Perfect! What a pro. I printed for tomorrow.