It is alluring to overlook the internet and write as a hobby apart from your Ph.D.'s serious work. Why would students spend time blogging when they have multiple other things to work on, especially as a Ph.D. student? Believe it or not, personal branding is an important career asset in the Ph.D. community and others. Ph.D. students can write about their domain expertise to build a personal brand and build community and visibility around their work. Therefore, rather than asking, "What’s the point of blogging?" ask, "why not?" Blogs are crucial, especially in this current age of social media because:
- It's simple,
- It allows you more flexibility,
- It produces a valuable output that may help you with your studies, boost your profile, and help you find work.
Blogging and Professional network
Blogging can help students expand their professional network, raise their exposure, establish a reputation in their Ph.D. community, enabling them to communicate with people outside academics. Furthermore, it can assist you in accomplishing these goals far sooner in your career than would otherwise be feasible, even before you get your Ph.D. or publish any other work.
There's more to Blogging than Writing
Writing a blog primarily is writing short and crisp pieces, which is a better alternative for external readers and takes less time to produce than old techniques. Blogging allows students to share their opinions with a much wider audience, and the posts will be easy to publish on social media and easily searchable if you write them.
Ph.D. researchers don't have to write about current events; students may submit conference papers and research progress updates, proposing an excellent chance for input from others. It gives students the prospects for feedback with much greater frequency. It helps students stay connected to their impulse to write when they have something to say that's usually easily lost in writing projects as complex as journal articles, book chapters, or doctoral theories.
Are Blogging and Journaling the same?
Blogs can never replace journal articles, but they have a few benefits over them. As mentioned earlier, blogs are shorter and open access; and they have a potential audience far more significant than journals. Blogs fulfill an obligation to the general public as a Ph.D. community to share research clearly and appropriately.
Comparatively, journal articles can be multicolored, with hyperlinks to appropriate material and can contain audio and videos. Writers can link journal articles to academic papers they have written, therefore increasing the audience of your work.
To conclude, blogs are infinitely more accessible and ascertainable. Readers can become more educated, blogs can start online discussions and debates, and most importantly, blogs have the power to make someone change their opinions or think about a topic in a new way. The entire writing process can help various thoughts coalesce into shape for the Ph.D. community.
In the current online world of information overload, the endless consumption of other people's opinions, acquired wisdom, short attention spans, blogging can help students realize what they think and pen it to their blogs.
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