{"id":14052,"date":"2013-04-16T11:16:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T15:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=14052"},"modified":"2013-04-16T11:16:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T15:16:01","slug":"why-grad-students-should-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/04\/why-grad-students-should-blog.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Grad Students Should Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/literally-psyched\/2013\/04\/12\/why-grad-schools-should-require-students-to-blog\/?WT.mc_id=SA_sharetool_Twitter\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Scientific American posted an article<\/a> on why grad students ought to blog (HT <a href=\"http:\/\/paul-barford.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/why-grad-schools-should-require.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Paul Barford<\/a>). The article suggests that important skills are learned in the process.<\/p>\n<p>As if he had been waiting for that cue, <a href=\"http:\/\/patmccullough.com\/why-not-to-blog\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pat McCullough announced<\/a> why he blogged, why he stopped, and why he is resurrecting his blog!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/thegradstudentway.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/phd013013s.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"436\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific American posted an article on why grad students ought to blog (HT Paul Barford). The article suggests that important skills are learned in the process. 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