Our first contact

Hello, everyone! This blog was born from a comment that a student made in class several weeks ago. She said that she had difficulty to express her opinions in writing and, especially, to support her ideas with reasons or arguments. As it is not easy to have debates in class in which everyone can participate as much as they want, I think that a blog can be a good alternative: it will, I hope, give you the opportunity to exchange opinions with all the other students in the course. In this way, you will see a variety of points of view about the same topic, and you will have to support your ideas when someone disagrees with you.
So here comes our first topic of discussion: the blog itself. Do you think that it can help you to enlarge your critical capacity and make your opinions sounder? How? What would you like to see in it? Is there anything else that you expect from it? What?