Developing writing fluency and lexical complexity with blogs

     I have read a number of articles and different chapters about blog writing, since we started to examine the importance of weblogs. But today, after reading an interesting article about writing fluency and lexical complexity with blogs, I started to look at this oncept from different perspective.

    When I started to write blogs, firstly, I thought that it’s a place where one can have a lot of fun, because here you can express your thoughts and ideas freely, you can share it with your friends and professors, as well as with thousands of people visiting your weblog.  Later, I realized that it’s not an easy task to write a blog and to reflect on something you have listened, read or watched, because there a number of factors that should be taken into account when keeping a weblog.

    Perhaps, the first critical thing that comes to my mind is the audience, because every time you need to consider for who you are writing for. Your writing should be explicit and worth reading, your thoughts have to be obtainable for the audience of various ages and nationalities. Moreover, the overall language and grammar used in your writings need to be accurate and to the point.

    As this article considers writing fluency as one of the essential factors in writing a weblog, thus I’d also concentrate on this issue. According to Brown (1994) fluency is a steady flow of language for a short period of time without any self- or other correction at all. But this paper defines fluency in writing as the number of words produced in a specified time frame, together with lexical frequency, irrespective of spelling and content, provided that the writer’s meaning is readily understandable.

    Though in this research the main focus was on writing fluency, a number of other factors, such as self-expression, time limit, authenticity, materials and activities were also considered.

     As for me, all these factors are of equal value for writing an interesting and meaningful weblog for the real audience.