Moving to the Public: Weblogs in the Writing Classroom
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/moving_to_the_public.html

Lowe, Charles and Terra Williams
Into the Blogosphere
2004

Abstract:

Given that students have access to the Internet, weblogs can easily replace traditional classroom uses of the private print journal. While weblogs are normally public, free tools such as Blogger can be used for private, expressive writing.