I was searching around looking at other blogs today – anything that resembled what i would like my blog to be like and I came across the term “scholarblogger” or Scholar-blogger. [Now i can win that competition with the Reference Librarians – they said would give a chocolate bar to the first person to provide a term that was not in Wikipedia.]
Do I want the title of Scholar-blogger?
I am a scholar, in that my day-job is as an academic; and i am a blogger. So i guess i am a scholar-blogger.
But do i want to be one?
Only if it doesn’t mean that my prose is dense, or that i write inaccessible jargon. I have stylistic faults – and boy am i my worst critic, but none of us like to be reminded that given we “write” for a living we should know how not to split our infinitives or write run-on sentences or keep the tense the same for the entire paragraph!
