Blogs are frequently updated web pages that often times are free and where individuals or groups write about an array of topics used for various purposes; for professional or otherwise.
In my opinion, Blogs could be used as legitimate forms of news or scholarship. Nonetheless, there are a lot of blogs out there that are not relevant for academic research. It takes one to evaluate blogs critically and to identify whether or not blogs are suitable for scholarship or news.
For example, the blog APA format I have provided below is an example of a credible source of scholarships for quite some reasons. First, the author is a Native Indian himself and an educator of Indian studies for more than 40 years. Secondly, reading the blog further, I have noted the author primarily talks about the history of the Chippewa civil war veterans and does not indulge himself into saying something against other communities perhaps the whites.
Lastly, he credits the photo of the Chippewa civil war veterans and identifies the two veterans by name. Unfortunately, he does not have a reference of all the historical dates that he used in his writing
References
Big River Man News-Beaulieu Family History. (2010, June 2). Retrieved from http://beaulieufamily-bigrivermen.blogspot.com/
Hi Abdi,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the blog. The writer did a nice job on it (as well as his other blog on Indian education) but he did not keep either of them up (he stops blogging for both of them in 2010).
What I like about his posts is that he gives credit for many of the photos that he uses, and also shares scans of original government documents and the like. So his blogs (even though they appear abandoned) could make for legitimate research resources.
Sincerely,
Professor Wexelbaum