Academic Blogging

When I first heard that we had to blog in class for our grades, I had mixed emotions, shocked, scared, confused but still interested in the idea.

Shocked for the most part because I’ve never done any blogging in my life. All of my prior school writing was done on paper and in notebooks so our work was for my eyes and my teacher’s eyes only. I didn’t have to worry about what other people thought but blogging opens up the gates of my expressions to the World Wide Web. Scary.

Blogging is conveying your thoughts, whether it is a movie review, random rants or input on any given topic but on a public platform. Everyone has access to your perspective so being concise is an asset. I’m new to writing blogs, but not to reading them so I understand that bloggers deserve gratitude for being able to express their thoughts out in the public.

As far as stepping into the role of a blogger, I feel privileged that I have a platform to share my thoughts and to have my classmates converse or debate about them. What’s exciting about contributing to the public sphere is the sense of authority because some one out in the World Wide Web may stumble upon my ideas and think, “hmmm, this guy has a good point.”