*****ATTENTION***** You-HOO!!

Someone mentioned this morning that an observation/reflection which was posted received negative comments concerning comma use. The post, however, was not for an essay, but simply a means of personal expression. DO read and comment on posts made by the writers, but keep in mind that almost ALL posts are essentially rough drafts (INCLUDING MINE!). The purpose of blogs is to capture ideas, fleeting thoughts, and to use cyberspace and the blog to record them in words, available anytime, anywhere one has access to a computer & internet. In the fast-paced world we live in, just having the opportunity to retain important concepts quickly is needed. Blogs were not originally created to be used by English classes, after all. As I see it, blogs are a tremendous strategy that can be implemented to improve one's writing, but not everything that is posted requires editing commentary. For instance, it's perfectly fine to comment on a post with something as simple as: "Yeah, I know what you mean; I hate blogging for English, too." There is a huge difference between writers and editors. All of us are writers. I have a friend who is a copy editor for a magazine. She is not the writer who finds the inspiration for a topic, researches the information, tests the veracity of the facts, and finally writes the article. She is the one who reads the article, meticulously searching for errors, making corrections so that readers clearly grasp what the writer is saying and then she approves the piece for publication. There is a time and a place for writing and editing. EXCEPT WHEN ASKED TO DO SO, PLEASE DO NOT EDIT A BLOG POST. While grammar, mechanics, tense, sentence formation are all necessary to a polished final essay, blogs DO NOT have to be refined.