Response to the Articles

Both articles, "The Essayification of Everything" by Christy Wampole and "Blogs vs. Term Papers" by Matt Richtel, suggest a negative depiction upon the difference in cognitive process and "meditative deficiency" which is displayed through essays rather than blogs which more commonly contain posts about occurring events in someone's life. Wampole's essay, which to my surprise could be considered and essay, seems to have more of  a persuasive tone when compared to Richtel's article which does not connect with the reader as easily and lacks the detail Wampole adds to interest the reader more and convince the reader of her knowledge upon the subject of "essayification."

Christy Wampole adds intriguing facts such as historical ones and fancies others' creative terms while adding some of her own, essayificaiton and essayism, making her viewpoint more entertaining and proving her point on how essays cannot be categorized. Although similarly both Richtel and Wampole argue that nontextual essays lack critical thinking and depth when compared to the term paper or written assignment, Wampole does not add many solutions to the problem. She instead adds to why students prefer the format of a blog rather than the format of writing an essay. Generally, most welcome quick feedback and interaction between his or her reader, whether it be through a "like, follow, tag, etc." Of course, the majority of students should receive feedback on their essays, whether the feedback is positive or negative, but although there is a satisfaction observing how teachers have looked analyzed student's  papers and shown  that they have acknowledged it, one person is simply not enough for attention nowadays. It does add that it was someone most would admire but quantity seems to overwhelm quality when needing feedback. While the internet provides instantaneous responses from many places, although some are not very valid nor fair, the student/person immediately is tangled by the numbers rather than the quality of the commentary or views.Although not all blogs are essays they still have some traits such as visualizing an opinion and explaining that opinion though still are insufficient when the concept of critical thinking is considered.

Richtel on the other hand, supplies the reader with the less focus on the concept of the essay but instead focuses on the contrast between papers, term papers to be specific, and blogs. He clearly defines how the term paper is superior in any perspective and how blogs basically should not be considered par t of the academic criteria. Though his backup nformaiton is sometimes a little over a decade old, "A study in 2002 estimated that about 80 percent of high school students were not asked to write a history term paper of more than 15 pages" and contains some crude commentary from sources " Writing is being murdered... We don't pay taxes so kids can talk about themselves and their home lives." Although his biased opinion lack updated information and may be frank at times it does acknowledge both sides of the arguement, though there is an obvious lean towards the traditional term paper. He states how the "new literacy," blogs and such, are becoming more popular than the "old literacy," essays and research papers. Later on Richtel argues that althouhg blogging is not the best of forms it does adapt better than bad writing as Professor Davidson stated in his point.