What is a blog? Why does CHEM300 involve blogging?
These are two of the questions you might be wondering early on in CHEM300. A blog is basically the modern equivalent of a newspaper article, though often written by an amateur rather than a professional writer/journalist, and always found online (blog is short for web-log). Around the time the CHEM300 course was developing, blogs were a hot thing.
Nowadays we don’t pay so much attention to the form of the writing because the existence of blogs has become normal to us. Nonetheless, blogging serves an important role for CHEM300. It gets you writing. It does that on a flexible and easy-to-use platform, and because your work is fairly short, it does so in a low-stakes kind of way. It gives your instructor and TA opportunities to give you feedback on your writing; feedback you should aim to incorporate for your later assignments, blogging or otherwise.
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-Robin