IntroductionAs a community, scholars are increasingly accepting the use of public, online, journal-style writings, known as blogs (blogs), as a valid pedagogy for the classroom. The appeal of using blogs in the classroom arises primarily from the discursive possibilities offered by new technologies: namely, that blogs make it possible to discuss almost any subject in a socially moderated medium. which encourages participants to compare, develop and modify their ideas. understanding of this topic in relation to the ideas of their peers. Although these speeches can serve a wide variety of purposes, this media is increasingly used as a format for reading responses - a somewhat traditional pedagogical approach in composition studies, but now modified by this new digital medium to allow for a discussion of course readings, rather than an isolated, individual response. In other words, the genre of the reading response blog allows discussions of course texts, which traditionally take place in class after students have written a response to the text, to be initiated or conducted entirely in a social and public space. For this particular analysis, I will analyze examples of this kind from a graduate seminar, where students respond not only to texts but also to the ideas and thoughts of their peers. These examples are all taken from public blogs posted over a single week of readings, at the beginning of the semester, in order to examine the steps taken by these students and how, within the framework of a course assignment, they form a discourse community . Note of course that one of the samples is my own blog, and so I will approach this genre both as a participant and...... middle of paper ......om/2010 / 02/stop-face-lifts-we-understand-social-to.html. March 1, 2010. Hetland, Tim. “Forms of popular culture as means of “giving” meaning. » February 7, 2010. Web.http://steppingoffthebus.blogspot.com/2010/02/forms-of-popular-culture-as-ways-to.html. March 1, 2010. Hillman, Maggie. “The Story of Samuel Whiskers: Developing Literacy at Home.” February 7, 2010. Web.http://ethospathoslogoszone.blogspot.com/2010/02/tale-of-samuel-whiskers-developing.html.March 1, 2010.Oliver, Malcolm. “Online communities and mass media are > bedtime stories? » February 8, 2010. Web.http://malcolmii.blogspot.com/2010/02/online-communities-and-mass-media-are.html. March 1, 2010. Sandoval, Marisa. “Discuss it as dance.” February 6, 2010. Web.http://wsuenglish597.blogspot.com/2010/02/discouse-as-dance.html. March 1, 2010.