Blogging as writing evidence
I know, I know: I'm a little too enthusiastic about blogging. But I just read this entry by a fellow rhet/comp professor in Connecticut and thought I would share it: it touches upon the brief discussion we had about blogs as evidence of students' writing abilities.
posted by Donna | 10:23 AM
2 Comments:
You CAN'T be too enthusiastic about blogging! It was a really interesting moment when they brought up blogging and siad that it could have a professional impact on a student.
The thing of it is though... I'd worry about the professional impact. If I was going corporate, I think I would show up online differently.
I currently use my blog space as a place to post reading notes, to puzzle through things, to admit when I've hit the wall and when I am frustrated or frazzled. I like it like this. It reveals more of who I am.
I wouldn't mind a potential employer looking at my blog space to see that I can post, keep/hook-up a blogroll, code an RSS feed, etc. However, I am uncomfortable thinking of my blog as a "professional writing" site. It's not traditional, resume quality writing. And, I don't know that I want to push myself to do that in my blog space.
Although, because it's public, it is really doing that anyway -- despite what I intend I guess I really am marketing/branding myself by posting as I do.
I guess I'm not as worried about this as an academic. I guess I hope I'll be forgiven for any naive (or just plain stupid) arguments I put forth when it's my first encounter with the material. Maybe this attitude in itself is naive. But, heck, Jenny just got a job at Penn and she admitted on her blog that she had ketchup on her shirt when they called to offer her the job!
It's a big decision showing up online, being honest, and blogging in our real names. Most days I don't worry about it, but I still have occasional reservations. I worry that "they" won't like me if they see the ketchup (or in my case, probably taco sauce :-) ) on my shirt.
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