Kathleen West Article

In Kathleen West's article "Weblogs and Literary Responses"  is her research of using blogs in the classroom. What she realizes is that the students immediately develop identities for themselves using different forms of internet language. She also noticed that her students didn't  abandon the techniques they learner in their classes when they wrote their responses. What's funny is that when writing on the internet or on my blog, etc. I do these same exact things. I use internet language and acronyms but when writing analysis I write like I should on one of my excellent papers I write. What I think is that the more online writing research should be conducted to get to the bottom of whether of not online writing has a negative effect on the writing skills of students.