Michael Shanks

First off I believe that Shanks blog is both a blog and can be "academic inquiry". It provides a lot of information for the reader and allows them to make their own opinions on a subject. I also believe that Shanks blogs reflect him as a person. He would not be writing about these things if they did not interest him. We are able to get an insight into the things he finds most interesting about life and what he wants to learn more about and what he would like to share with his readers via the blog. I also like the way that he has the blog laid out. I think that his most important points are the things he says that are just a line long then he hits enter and write a more substantial paragraph. I use this as an example because as we are writing our papers it is not exactly "proper" to just have a "paragraph" with one short sentence in it explaining our point, that is where blogs and academic papers differ. You have more freedom when you are writing in a blog. Whereas when you are writing for academics you are expected to be professional about the way you write. It is not so free flowing so to speak.