Group D: Serena Santi

I visited some blogs and I found an interesting one concerning the last Nobel prize in medicine, Mario Capecchi. As everybody know the Nobel prize is an international prize given each year for excellent work in physics, chemistry, literature etc. What interested me most was the name of the Nobel Laureate because it has clearly an Italian origin. I discovered that he was born in Italy. he belong to a jewish family and his mother was tranported into a death camp during the Second World War. If you want to know how the story ends you can visit the blog and let me know if it surprises you.

In the second blog I chose you can find information about Doris Lessing, the last Nobel prize in literature. It is funny how this English old lady reacted to the news. I think it's interesting for you to know who she is and which are her most famous works. I read that she started her career as a post-colonial writer. after this I'm interested in reading some of her books.

The blogs I visited have a quite formal style with no use of contractions or slang. Maybe because they give information about actual news such as the name of a Nobel Laureate. The links are usually written within the text and this is the most common way used by bloggers to put a link in a blog. It seems to me that the use of images is not so essential. Usually images are not too big and they are not in a central position. What is important is what is written and how. The strategies to catch reader's attention are very useful. For example the use of short paragraphs, highlighted words, colours etc.