Why Academics Should Blog

By Hugh McGuire

1. You need to improve your writing
2. Some of your ideas are dumb
3. The point of academia is to expand knowledge
4. Blogging expands your readership
5. Blogging protects and promotes your ideas
6. Blogging is Reputation
7. Linking is better than footnotes
8. Journals and blogs can (and should) coexist
9. What have journals done for you lately?

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