Summary:

As a first year student, students write on average about 92 pages a year compared to a senior, which is about 146 pages a year. It takes up to 10,000 hours of dedication to become a expert writer. But on realistically a student would not write up to that point to get a degree. Blogging is one of the best ways to develop as a writer, also an opportunity for exploring and developing intrinsic motivation of writing. On a blog you can control not just the subject but also the length, format, timing, and other characteristics of writing. The first ever Blogging Application was created in 1999, in 2001 the event of 9/11 caused a large outbreak in the world of political blogging. The blogging world in general has expanded since 2002, blogging site Technorati.com recorded over 133 million blogs posted since the beginning. Blogging can be helpful in many ways, claiming interest and reading other blogs can help you with brainstorming on what to write about. Also more pros about blogging is that blogging doesn’t require a specific topic, length, or have any deadlines.

Main Idea:

The main idea of this article was to explain to us the pros that blogging can have on someone, also how it is more productive than writing.

Key Terms:

Blogging: a website containing a writer’s or group of writers’ own experiences, observations, or opinions

Intrinsic: belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing

Interest: the state of wanting to know or learn about something or someone.

Professional: A professional is a member of a profession or any person who earns their living from a specified professional activity

Develop: grow or cause to grow and become more mature, advanced, or elaborate.

Making Connections:

This article connections to how I learned the difference between how it was better to type something online, rather than writing something on paper. When I was in high school, we had a website where we had to post/write our essays on. After publishing our essays we had to go back and review other classmates essays, which this also helped us with either brainstorming or writing Technics for a future essay. This also relates to the last article we read ” Is Google Making Us Stupid” and the podcast with Clive Thompson. Both relate by give us pros on how the internet is boosting our knowledge, as blogs aren’t so long we can read through them quickly and get more information faster than reading pages after pages.