ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a style appropriate for blogging – intimate, personal, concrete, practical – as it offers insights about the value of blogs as a form of public-facing academic writing and offers some thoughts on what might allow someone to succeed at this practice. A blogger forms a relationship with a community of readers. Over time, bloggers added commentary and shared experiences. So, academic bloggers need to learn how to embody their ideas, to share their feelings and experiences, not in an exhibitionistic way, but as one of the resources from which they draw their insights. A blog is a place to reflect, to sketch out and test ideas with a larger public. Blogging is not quite teaching as it has been traditionally understood, but it does allow me to work closely with my students to improve their writing and it does generate materials that are used in classrooms around the world.
