Healing as (we)blog in a "Show Tits or GTFO" world

Introduction to a hybrid genre

I like to begin with explanations to render my writing and its purpose as transparent as possible. This is an academic essay; this is a blog entry; this is an academic entry in a blog that can best be described as a hybrid. This is a blog entry/academic essay that attempts to extract the important generic conventions of both to create a piece of writing that is reflective of its content. This is an academic essay about blogging posted as a blog entry.

Update:
Because this is meant to be a scholarly essay, its length does not fit well within the normal blog genre in which posts should be relatively short and succinct. After careful consideration, I have decided that this post and future "formal" scholarly work will be posted in a different area of the site using the Drupal book function. You can read the rest of the
post by clicking here.