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One of the things I discovered to be the most daunting about writing blog posts is the fact that, while my work is still done for academic purposes and -at least partially- in order to get through the course, it is at the same time being open for the world to see. While I don’t have a million followers waiting on my every update, knowing that there are teachers and peers who are able to check out my stuff as soon as I hit Publish does make me still somewhat hesitant to post.

This is different to just handing in normal work to be looked over by my classmates or marked by tutors, because with those types of things I’ve had the time to look over them and assure myself that I’m not going to be completely humiliated if I leave it in the hands of another person. On the other hand, as was explained in my tutorial on Friday, blog posts are never necessarily finished products. They are thoughts, musings, off-the-cuff posts that don’t demand the same amount of refinement as an essay would. While this does better reflect the world we are living in today, as explained by Adrian in last week’s lecture, it still needs a bit of time to get accustomed.

When thinking about the blogging for this semester I often relate it back to the journal portfolio that haunted me in Writing Media Texts. It was a struggle then even to just write in a less formal tone for something that I knew was going to be assessed, but at least with that I knew it would only be seen by my teacher when the due date came after I had finished putting everything together, and not visible to everyone in the course every time I stuck in a new journal entry. I still had the time to get rid of stuff I didn’t like or add stuff that would help.

So I guess those are the concerns I’m dealing with in this post: informality and visibility. However, I have a feeling that they won’t be a problem down the track. Nevertheless, I felt it would be a good idea to document and voice it now anyway.