What's the Research-Related Purpose?
- To express your own opinions and to promote your research.
- As a current awareness tool for discovering what researchers in your field are doing.
- Blogs are sometimes interactive and allow comments and discussion.
Additional Information:
- Note also the emergence of simple-to-use collaborative and multi-author academic blogs which are described here.
- You can download and install a software script called WordPress. To do this you need a web host who meets the minimum requirements and time to set it up.
- There is also a service called WordPress.com which lets you get started with a new and free WordPress-based blog.
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