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Bloch, J. (2007). Abdullah’s blogging: a generation 1.5 student enters the blogosphere.
Learner language & technology. pp. 128- 141.

This article describes the use of blogs in an L2 writing course that focuses on pros and cons of plagiarism. The author talks about a student who, although his background in education and use of English is not well-grounded, used blogging as a tool to not only show the kinds of rhetorical strategies for evaluation, but to participate in a discussion amongst learners who were better able to express themselves.

I thought this article was very interesting. It made me think of our own people who hold little or no academic education and yet have abilities to express themselves well as well as to analyze, to synthesize, and make sense of the world around them. I was also interested about the generation 1.5 as mentioned in the article. Had it not been for blogging, I’m sure Abdullah’s ideas, insight, and connection to those in the same class would have been minimal. Blogging seems to help in many ways.