Posting 6: Blog Questionnaire

Age: 20 Tutorial Group: 2 Lecturer: Dr. Zaini Amir 1. Do you enjoy blogging? Why? I enjoy blogging because blogging enable me to write down something that I can share with other bloggers in terms of information, ideas or knowledge. For academic purposes, we can exchange the information we have found and to get some ideas by referring to each other's blog. 2. Based on your experience, what is the benefit of blogging? Most importantly, the benefit of blogging will enables you to learn something new that you might not have came across and furthermore allows you to improve your writing ability. 3. Do you need more assistance to set up your blog? No. 4. Do you have any memorable/favorite topic in your blog? Yes, one of my favorite topics in my blog is how blogging can improve writing skills. It gives me the idea on how we can improve our writing language through blogging. 5. List 5 advantages of blogging. - Improve writing skills. - Improve reading capability and vocabulary. - Able to interact with other bloggers by visiting and comment on each others' blog. - Readers can share something new such as information, ideas or knowledge through blogging. - Through blogging, people could also make friends online. 6. List 5 disadvantages of blogging. - Bloggers have to keep their blogs updated constantly, otherwise they might lose avid readers. - It is easy to start a blog, but is difficult to keep it alive. - People may get the wrong perception as not all information on blogs are true. - Irrelevant or sensitive issues might be discussed through blogs that have the intention to tarnish someone's reputation. - Some bloggers unable to write down their ideas in a compelling and clear manner. 7. Will you continue blogging after the course? Mabye, if given the time, will definitely blog not only for academic purposes, but for my personal blog as well. 8. Do you think that blogging improve your writing? Yes, through blogging, it definitely improve my writing. When I come across with the difficulty of the vocabulary, I will check out the dictionary. From that, I will able to learn new words and how to construct sentences while blogging. Each time when blogging, it helps to improve my writing ability significantly. 9. Do you think that we should continue with blogging activity for the next batch of students? Yes, blogging activity should be recommended and introduced for the next batch of students just like how we were taught now. 10. Will you recommend your friend to blog? Yes, I will recommend my friends to blog by telling them the many advantages of blogging and encourage them to set up their blogs. 11. Can you teach a friend to set up his or her blog? Yes, will teach he or she to set up if they do not know how is the procedure to set up the blog.