This is a post dedicated to a response of Alex Reid and his work ” Why Blog? Searching for Writing on the Web. He argues about the pros of blogging and their application in not only a writing class environment but for students at the college level in general. He says that blogging helps in a number of ways. This includes helping motivate students to write more, and therefore become better writers not only for their blog, but for academic purposes. He also argues that blogging by its nature creates a community, people and ideas you can read off of, and write about, generally things that interest you the student. Alex also argues that because of this connection, people who blog will write more because they find more ideas to write about, adding to the total number of blogs and ideas out there. Alex also says that the greatest advantage comes from the fact that blogging creates posts that last forever, and unlike traditional classes which can have students work for weeks on a single assignment that they never think of again, the blog creates a permanent record for students to go back and reflect on. This he says is the biggest advantage blogs have over traditional writing courses.
I personally have never been a big “internet guy” I mean I like video games, and Youtube maybe more than the next guy. The idea of my words and ideas being permanent and public scare me slightly. I personally don’t even have a twitter. It is exciting to be able to read everyone else’s works and get input, and for those people to read my work as well. I have always been a staunch supporter of constructive criticism, but overall the idea scares me.
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