Ivory, Soto, Torres

What are the differences between blog writing and traditional essay writing?

 

Audience concerns in blog writing are to me less thought out than when I am writing a paper for a class, but obviously when writing a blog and posting it more people are going to read it than just one or two people that would read an essay, therefore when writing a blog the audience is more important than writing an essay. In the type of paper I would write for a class who I am writing to is a main part in how I word my thoughts. With a blog the writing is more general.  But you have to keep in mind when writing a blog that anyone of any age can read your blog, although some bloggers don’t care about what the audience thinks about their blog they just care that people are reading it, either way the audience plays an important role in blog writing.

The difference between the format an essay and blog is an essay is going to more formal than a blog. Blog writing’s construction is less important to the content being posted. I do not tend to use paragraphs but thoughts are still thought out and separated with punctuation and line breaks. In a school paper nonetheless when you use a quote in a paper it takes just as long to site it properly as it does to incorporate the quote. Blogs are more based on what the writer wants to talk about rather than a topic discussed in an essay therefore I think that people that blog are more passionate about what they are writing. There is more freedom in blogging and in the format because it’s more personal and you’re not being graded on what you are writing. Because you aren’t graded you don’t feel as much pressure when writing therefore having more freedom in your writing.

Working collaboratively on papers can be limiting in your writing. It is hard to convey you thoughts about a subject because you think about how they’re writing will go along with yours.  So in many ways our writing starts to resemble one another’s writing although our ideas my stay very different the way in which we say them adapt so that our ideas flow together more efficiently. The good thing about writing in a group is you can incorporate all the member’s ideas into what you are writing. But I think most people would agree that it is definitely easier to write alone rather in a group.