Blogging is not stupid, and definitely not a waste of time.
By far, the most valuable quality of blog writing is that it allows you to express yourself in a genuine way. It feels so much more natural to just let the thoughts flow from your mind without worrying about confining to a strict structure of an essay or whatever. It makes it easier to be yourself.
Plus it makes it way easier to show how awesome I am. Nah I’m just kidding, but blogging definitely allows for a more comfortable style of writing than a persuasive essay would. Keeping in mind we could always go back to edit our posts, there was a nice sense of amnesty floating around. If I didn't like what I wrote or came up with something better, I was free to go back and revise it
Audience-wise, it was fun to know that my readers would be my fellow classmates and so I could write on a more familiar level. By that I mean I could talk about something that occurred in the LHSP program or something on campus because I knew my audience would know what I was talking about.
It was also very fun to read the blogs of others simply because I was curious on what they were writing about. I often wondered what other directions my classmates were heading towards with a given prompt. And because of their blogs, I could easily go to their blog and read what they wrote. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy
All in all, the blogging component of this course helped me let my creative side breathe a little. Where as the first two papers were strictly analytical and straightforward, I was able to play around with the blogs and how I would go about and write.
You could say it served as a mini stepping stone for the 4th and final project since it helped me move away from the rigid style of argumentative papers to a more freeform/story telling style.
To be honest, I’m going to miss blogging in this class.
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