One might ask what is a weblog, answer to that question is that a weblog is website or an internet application, where one record ideas of his/her personal experience or academic experiences (a sort of diary), or a recording of a particular disciplinary structure(health, careers, studies) according to Jo Anna Oravee, a weblog is a internet application genre , providing a platform for the development of critical.
Jo Anna Oravee also mention the value and importance of weblogs in higher education, he state that weblog production and consumption can help student place the various emerging hypertext variations with older media in the broader context of "media ecology"
As we all know, plagiarism is one of the biggest issues face in the higher education, weblogs limits or help reframe plagiarism, he finally mentions that students who access and use weblogs may therefore gain distorted senses of the timeframe of academic production and of the nature of intellectual discourse.
Before i became a student in the University of Mpumalanga, I did not know much about weblogs, I use to watch my favorite day time show called Oprah, they would mention the word weblog, but it ended there. During my first year, all the first year created their first weblogs, because it was part of the curriculum, most of us did not know, what was a weblog, how to blog or use it or what to write on it, but it was explained to us. In terms of academic, weblogs are not useful to me because I do not know weblogs that are aliened to my studies, even when I tried to search for them, they do not appear. But in terms of personal life, when it comes to health, fashion etc. it is so helpful because most of the weblogs that are aliened to the above are done by celebrates, its easy to reach them because celebrates market their weblogs using shows(television), radios and magazines.
Most of the blogger use their own knowledge, the isn't much research been done, limited hyperlinks, so the blogs become less effective for students.weblogs can be effective if more research is done, more hyperlinks are included and market their blog to be reachable for students.
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