Differences

I think that an essay shares thoughts and personal beliefs with people, while presenting facts and figures to support and help you tell someone about it. It's basically building someone's knowledge of something, something that interests the author, and he or she now would like to make it a cool subject with others. It is a way of getting all your say out in one big hunk! Also, the essay is something that you would put into a paper, book or any other thing. While in a blog it's a little different. As it has been in this class, you're to share your beliefs about something that is not your favorite subject or about something you never have heard before. Mostly they are just little comments, usually answering a question, and does not go into full detail on things. In an essay, you get feedback, but not as quickly as you would through a blog. In a blog you get almost immediate feedback, and then oppinions. In a blog, you're more personal self comes out at times. You may think it wrong, but after hours of pouring over hundreds of documents of info about your essay, you would think that it would have a clear understanding of the way you stand on things. Yet blogs create the more personal account of things. When we are usually writing our blogs, we are talking on a peronal level, and being the fact that our friends comment on
it, creates a atmosphere that we are okay with. I think the reason for the blog, is to transfer our private, inner, talkative selves from our blog habits to the paper of an essay so as to not make it sound like a silly report due for class. A blog however is personal and we get more down to earth in our thinking as friends and individuals when it comes to sharing concerns and statements in blogs. Why, you ask. Well it's very simple. Blogs are statements made by us, when our minds are traveling as fast as we can type the words we see in our head. As already said, in the essay, we have made time to correct and delete anything that would not interest our readers. So basically when we are posting a blog, or responding to one, we are sharing our real personal feelings right on the spot. "The essay is a dialogue, something about a world that I didn't know"---Kathleen Norris. Norris was trying to tell us that the way things are expressed is the key in writing. So when we look at the differences between the two, essay being long thought out papers, and then the blog as on the spot real conclusions about our beliefs; we see that blogs tend to be a little more of a greater strategy in finding someone's inner self. To wrap this up, the difference I see is that one seems to be more certain to change someone's mind to your cause, and one seems to just encourage argument, and or questions.