Examining my conscience :)

Hello all,

as anyone can see from my previous posts, me and my classmates are working a lot on sources' evaluation, reliability, writing and readability...So, as Sarah suggested, I want to think about my blog. I mean, I want to analyse if my blog posts respect some or any of the following characteristics: hourglass structure/well structured, logical, cohesive, clear, precise, concise and coherent.

As I go back and take a look to my first posts (e.g. Language Learning post) I realize that I made a lot of mistakes concerning:

• grammar,
• paragraphing,
• post length,
• use of conjuncts & subordinators (despite making myself clear, I used them too much!).

However, the more I go on writing and learning new things about text structure, the more it seems to me that I make better posts...Hope you've noticed that :) In the last posts I think I've managed to be precise and concise at the same time, which - afaic - it's very important in blogging. I myself get bored while reading everlasting and repetitive posts!

I think that blogging, unlike traditional writing, give us the possibility to be concise and precise without a lot of effort. Let's think about technical words or acronyms...you just put a clickable link on them and at the same time:

• people who know the meaning of that word just go on reading without any problem, and you don't bother them with an unwanted and verbose explanation;
• people who don't know the meaning of that word just click on the highlighted word and will find all the needed information, and you don't increase your post's length.

BTW, let me know what you think about that!

Bye
Giorgia
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Me & Blogging

I never had a blog ‘till now, ‘cos I was always concerned about being boring as well as exposing myself too much. However, as I read on the net while doing a paper on the blogging phenomenon, almost EVERYBODY has either a blog or a page into a social network...so it’s high time for us to become active cybernauts :)
As I’ve just written, I found a lot of interesting info on ‘blogging’ during the wiki project on the 1st semester: blogosphere is HUGE and there are plenty of blogs, the ‘cyber-world’ is so big that have been invented websites working as search engines for searching blogs (e.g. Technorati or Icerocket).
Neverthless I’m sure that blogging and analysing others’ blogging – using the proper tools – will become more and more interesting, useful and easy as we go on.
Try to go in Google or Technorati and key in “how to blog...”, you’ll find a lot of tips and walkthroughs for managing properly a blog and its tools.
Beyond all these technical notions, I think (and I hope) that this new adventure will help me to improve my writing skills in English as well as my vocabulary both informal and formal. I think that this can be an effective experience through which achieve some of the above mentioned language goals I set at the beginning of this semester!

Read, write, observe, analyse, learn...It's up to me now!

Bye
Giorgia