How is blogging different from writing essays? Blogging is different from writing for several reasons. First, with blogging, you type. You do type when you write essays, but at some point, everyone writes too--like in the peer review process for example. Second, blogging is much more informal than writing an essay is. A blog entry is like a small insight into what the blogger is thinking. Another difference is that blogs are not really edited and dissected and analyzed as essays are. One really important thing that blogging has taught me which I can use when I write my essays is that if done correctly, a lot can be said in a little as opposed to a little being said in a lot--you do not need paragraphs and paragraphs of text to relay a minute point.
Really interesting to see how you compare blogging and writing. I agree, and I like the informality of blogging.
ReplyDeleteI really like your point about being concise-- that's something I tend to have trouble with in my essays! Blogging definitely helped me to convey a point in less space than I might in an essay.
ReplyDeleteI like your last idea about how one can say a lot in blogging by typing a little, as opposed to an essay, where they have to elaborate so much and essentially end up making mumble jumble nonsense. I've always thought it was weird that we had a page number that we had to fill...
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