Thursday, April 22, 2010
Blogging
Personally I don't really mind blogging. I feel like in everyone's posts they say how annoying it is and how much they hate it. I think blogging as a form of homework is a great idea. All these other comp teachers are handing out 20-30 page readings and a paper a week. Would you rather have that or blogging honestly? I much rather blog. Anyone is gunna complain about homework but when you look at the bigger picture, we have it pretty good. All we have to do is blog every night about about what we read. Write down our ideas. We don't even have to write properly I don't have to capitalize or spell right or use punctuation. It's better than writing a formal paper and having to hand it in and have it count as a quiz grade. How much better can it get right now? No homework would be nice but that's not exactly an option. I also like blogging because other people's posts usually help me out when I'm confused about what we're supposed to be writing. All I have to do is read someone's blog and I'll get a better idea of what I'm supposed to be writing about. Anyway those are my thoughts for the most part.
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Because we don't have to write formally, could this be hurting us in the long run? Isn't the class about making us better academic writers?
ReplyDeleteIt could be but I think people should be able to differentiate between academic and and casual "online" writing. I think our blogs are a mixture of both. You don't necessarily have to write formally because your blog is YOUR way of expressing yourself so you can write however you want. But the blogs are part of an academic class which usually deals w/ formal writing. I don't think this combo is necessarily hurting us because in a way we actually are becoming better academic writers by experiencing different forms of writing like the kind in our blogs.
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