The Writer Within Me

At first, I have to admit, I was really hesitant to start a blog. But since it is a requirement for our Clinical Chemistry class, I had no choice but to do it.

 I am not a born writer. I am the type of person who'd rather read other people’s work, article or blog, for that matter.

But then, I realized that edublogging is a blessing in disguise.

Why? I find it difficult to find a theme for the “edublog” to make topics in Clinical Chemistry attention-grabbing.

 I spent hours or even days just thinking how to make complicated topics simpler for a wider range of audience/readers to understand. But, I am thankful to our mentor that we were given a chance to create our own blog.

It’s more than just a REQUIREMENT.

Edublogging is really cool…

Here is a short list of my learnings from Edublogging:

1. CREATIVITY

It taught me to be creative. I know that you might wonder why, but believe me this blog is a lot livelier than my plain old style in writing.

Why not? Rather than black and white and type and print articles, in blogging you could add colors and even spice up your work by adding pictures.

 Yeah I know that you could also print colored pictures, but wait there’s more. You could add video clips in your blog and go to different sites/links to other websites with just a single click. How cool is that?

2. SHARE TO CONNECT

In edublogging you could connect to people all over the world. What you write can be easily accessed. Sharing knowledge is a lot easier through this. It doesn’t matter if you’re in Europe, Asia or in any other continent as long as you have internet connection.

3. NO TO PLAGIARISM

Edublogging taught be about respect. Respect for other authors, for their works. Respect for the right for intellectual property.

 As a student, of course I do not know everything that is why I attribute my sources and site my references. For me, plagiarism is a huge crime for a writer to commit. It goes to show that if you copy you belittle your capabilities.

 Here's a piece of unsolicited advice.... Don’t put your integrity to waste. BE ORIGINAL!

4. YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO WRITE!

Through this opportunity, i discovered the writer in me. I think I was able to enhance my skills in writing.

For ya’ll people out there, discover the writer within you! It doesn’t matter if you think you are not that good. There’s always room for improvement. Edublogging… why not? Give it a try!

For about four months now, I think I can call myself am edublogger. I am LIVING THE DREAM of being a blogger. But now, since this will be my last post for this semester, am I LEAVING THE DREAM? Well, I just don’t know yet. We’ll see…

This has been IwRiteAll. Bye for now…