{"id":2828,"date":"2010-10-04T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/10\/can-a-blog-be-used-for-serious-academic-writing\/"},"modified":"2010-10-04T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T16:17:00","slug":"can-a-blog-be-used-for-serious-academic-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/10\/can-a-blog-be-used-for-serious-academic-writing.html","title":{"rendered":"Can a blog be used for serious academic writing?"},"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>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/publishingarchaeology.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/can-blog-be-used-for-serious-academic.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Can a blog be used for serious academic writing?<\/a>\u201d is the question posed in the title of a blog post on the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/publishingarchaeology.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/can-blog-be-used-for-serious-academic.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Publishing Archaeology<\/a>. It is also important to the topic I and other bloggers will be talking about in the session about blogging and other electronic media at SBL in November. Have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/publishingarchaeology.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/can-blog-be-used-for-serious-academic.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the post<\/a>. How would you answer the question?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1892394625176651001?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCan a blog be used for serious academic writing?\u201d is the question posed in the title of a blog post on the blog Publishing Archaeology. 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