Assignment: Expressing Yourself Informally

According to The Social Psychology Network, a blog, "short for "web log," is an online journal or record of sequential postings with news, commentary, or other material" (2017). Like an essay, a blog post establishes and develops a clear point about a topic or issue. Depending on the topic, audience, and purpose, a blog can be formal or informal. A blog written by an individual, for example, tends to be about his or her experience with the topic and is written in first person.

Imagine for this assignment that you have created your own blog site and that you are writing a post for your blog site. This specific blog post
Examples might include:

• If you are in the medical field and have experience with taking care of family members who are sick, you might write a blog post to other caretakers who are tending to family members, perhaps showing them a way they can avoid the stress that caretaking will create for them.

• If you are in the law enforcement field, though you may not have experience with being a police officer, you might use your experience as a parent to write to other parents about what they might do to help their children to not get involved in gangs, if you have any relevant experience with it or know people who have.