• Easy self-publishing tool available to anyone with Internet access.
• Enables publishing of snippets, less developed ideas, or drafts of works
  in progress.
• A narrative of the development of a writer's ideas and memes which can make the invention process more visible.
• Informal writing. Can be playful or conversational in tone.
• Foregrounds the intertextuality of writing.
• Invites/encourages peer response through comment postings on site and the posts of others on their weblogs.
• Favors a collaborative, social constructionist epistemology in which writing is less of a solitary act.
• As a journal which can receive feedback and response, can make keeping a
  journal more engaging and encourages daily writing.
• Does not have to be conceived of as additional work. Writing teachers can share texts that they are or should be writing already.
• Allows expression of the personal alongside academic interests.
• Can be used to provide an example of the teacher-as-writer to students.

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