List at least four ways in which you can build a reputable ethos in your blog.
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using tools of STEM journalism to argue for your point of view citing test results and statistics from peer-reviewed research as part of your argument telling a pertinent and moving story from your experience including links to many pertinent sources in an area of inquiry including your professional credentials, modestly displayed, on the home page of your blog making your site easy to navigate using visuals, such as photographs and video, to support statements in your text
Can blogs contribute to science?
The blog as a genre offers writers the freedom to ____ with voice and ____, length and stylistic features, and it doesn’t require writers to go through the strict procedures of ____. That freedom, though, means that readers often don’t know what to ____, and that leads to reader ____ about a blog’s value, even while the idea of freedom is attractive to potential writers.
Meanwhile, the professional ____ of the writer can give the blog a scientific ____ that most science journalism does not have, and that can make the blog ____ as science.
Moreover, if blogs ____ scientific points of view as ____ as do reputable STEM journalists, then the blog entries themselves, not only the writer’s ____, will contribute to the progress of science.
The blog as a genre offers writers the freedom to experiment with voice and tone, length and stylistic features, and it doesn’t require writers to go through the strict procedures of peer review. That freedom, though, means that readers often don’t know what to expect, and that leads to reader uncertainty about a blog’s value, even while the idea of freedom is attractive to potential writers.
Meanwhile, the professional credentials of the writer can give the blog a scientific prestige that most science journalism does not have, and that can make the blog credible as science.
Moreover, if blogs argue for scientific points of view as carefully as do reputable STEM journalists, then the blog entries themselves, not only the writer’s ethos, will contribute to the progress of science.