Finding Your "Blogger Voice"
Blogging: the online equivalent to "Stand up, face the class and read your diary out loud please." I used to think blogging was something similar to the concept above. I always admired the courage it took to share and publish your own thoughts in a less formal setting for anyone to read. I never thought I had it in me, I never imagined I would be asked to blog, but here I am. When it comes to blogging, I am pretty much a newbie. I have created websites for my post-graduate courses that included blog components, but these were structured and had specifications to content and format. This is my first time creating a blog that is simply for the purpose of blogging. Each time I write a blog post, I am fighting the urge to use formal language and cite sources and links with a 'References' section at the bottom (and for my first blog post, I did!). For my first few posts, I was typing into a word document, then copying the text into my blog draft because I ...