Tips for academic blogging

Welcome to the UCD Academic Blogging site brought to you as part of the Humanities Institute of Ireland's Transferrable Skills Seminar Series. Below you will find a series of links and resources that can help you develop your own academic research blog. Best of luck with your blogging career!

How to write an academic blog:

http://thoughtcapital.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/how-to-write-an-academic-blog/

General Stylistic Guidelines for Web Writing

Writing for the Web (MIT Libraries):

http://libstaff.mit.edu/webgroup/writing/design.html

Online Directory of Academic Blogs

The Academic Blog Portal:

http://www.academicblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Debates and Criticism about Academic Blogging

Academic contributions of blogging:

http://crookedtimber.org/2004/11/18/the-academic-contributions-of-blogging/

M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/education/02blogs.html?_r=2&hpw

Good examples of Academic Blogs in Ireland

Pue's Occurrences

http://puesoccurrences.wordpress.com/

Start up your own blog with these services

• Blogger
• Weebly
• TypePad
• Wordpress.com
• Xanga