One Writer's Experience with Blogging

Austin Lingerfelt, who first encountered blogging as a requirement in a sophomore composition class, has written an insightful essay on the effect blogging has had on his writing and on him as a writer. I'd categorize this as one of the most moving arguments yet for using weblogs in the composition classroom. The teacher he had for that course must be very proud.

Cross-posted to Kairosnews.

Addendum: I know this isn't a case that represents all students who use blogs in the composition classroom. This writer might, in fact, be an outlier, but if other writers taking composition can benefit from blogging the way Lingerfelt has, or almost as much, I'd argue that the weblog is a tool to be taken seriously in composition pedagogy.