"BLOGGING IS TO WRITING WHAT EXTREME SPORTS ARE TO ATHLETES: MORE FREE-FORM, MORE ACCIDENT-PRONE, LESS FORMAL, MORE ALIVE. IT IS, IN MANY WAYS, WRITING OUT LOUD!" -ANDREW SULLIVAN

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Advantages of Blogging

Blogging helps teens investigate the human condition from various perspectives. Blogging also helps teens discover how those contrasts can shape their worldviews and mold them into critical investigators, thinkers, analysts and much better writers!  When teens blog individually, or with other teens, it can have lasting personal, social and academic effects!

Personal Benefits

• An opportunity to make a difference in someone's life or the world
• Freedom of expression
• Share opinions in a safe environment
• Connect with others

Social Engagement

• Be exposed to new ideas
• Explore various world perspectives
• Build communication skills
• Build a positive, social network

Academic Merit

• Improves writing skills
• Establishes writing as a daily routine.
• Experimenting with tone and other literary devices
• Encourages the creativity to try various genres/types of writing
• Makes you a more concise writer
• Develops critical-thinking skills