What kind of Embodied Cognition can help me produce an essay?

Can someone own up to tweeting about this blogpost by Stephanie Willen Brown: CogSci Librarian: Embodied Cognition?

I read:

"Embodied Cognition...[see Stephanie's post for an explanation if you need it]...article in the January/February issue of Scientific American Mind: Body of Thought by Siri Carpenter...[a couple of examples]:

• Just in the past few years studies have shown that holding a hot cup of coffee or being in a comfortably heated room warms a person's feelings toward strangers ...
• [T]hat sitting on a hard chair turns mild-mannered undergraduates into hard-headed negotiators"

 and have been wondering ever since how essay writing powers might be embodied (so I can switch them on).

"When Books Talk Back" by Vaun Raymond (2007), licensed for re-use under this (by-nc-sa) Creative Commons License. via kwout

Blogging towards an essay?

I do find blogpost writing conducive to thinking - although it is frustrating because it takes so long, so maybe there is something in the idea in my last post to work on ideas here - I don't even have to post them, just being in the frame might help.

Downside to that idea is that part of my focus at the Blogger Edit Post screen is to try for a writing style that suits blog-reading (yeah ok I'm not great at that)... whereas my goal for school is an essay.  Some parts of this are a positive.  From what I understand (in theory if not my own practice):

• In neither case is a long sentence desirable.
• In both a logical flow of argument is desirable.
• I'm remembering phrases that probably apply to both, like
• "show, don't tell" and in both cases link it (though the citation method differs)
• and "Trim the fat"
• .... anything else?

Aside from citation methods, and blog=personal .v. essay=impersonal, what distinctions between essays and blogposts should I keep in mind if I work up my essay in a blogpost?