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Personal blog - Coggle Diagram
Personal blog
Personal texts
audience: onleself, friends, family memebrs or groups with a common interest
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describing, narrating, entertaining, recommending, persuading
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Professional texts
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attention to the cognitive needs of individuals, transfer of knowledge, and logical presentation of information
language: clear, factual, and a formal register
informing, instructing, explaining, analysing, convincing, interpreting, evaluating
Mass media texts
audience: large, unspecified audience
author projects authority, desirability, or exclusivity
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Structure
a narrative-driven blog
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focus: events
important event in your life, or big events, like excursion- something that you have experienced
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main paragraphs: different parts of the story with description, explanation and thoughts (reflections)
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thesis-driven blog
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main paragraphs: ideas to support your main idea- point, examples and explanations with reflections
ending: fina thought, conclusion, and relections
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blogger's opinion, reflections and feeling shoud be conveyed to the reader
Other advises
maintain awareness of the audience through the use of the second-peronal pronoun, maintaining the personal aspct through the use of "I"
without the use of personal language and a somewhat informal register, the blog is structured like an essay
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Writing to an audience
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formal language, personal, dominant voice
Tone and style
narrative-driven blog
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chatty and informal language, imaginative
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when writing aboout conversations, you can use reported speech
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Video advises
required stuff
technology required: computer, laptop, ipad
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steps
- Brainstorm-what are you going to blog about, what the audience wants to see from you (information, resources, content)
- Research- keyword research (what keywords to include), what other posts aren't saying in the topic you want to write about
- Outline the post, main bullet points that you want to cover in that post- bullet points will be heading tags, underneth every bulet point small subsections or back-up points
- Forget what you learned in school, write like you speak or like you're talking to a 4th grader
- Read your blog post out loud- change sentences that seem unnatural, or too complex
-include your own experience, "I", "me", "you guys", directly call out your audience
- Break down your paragraphs- they should be long one line or two line
- Include visual breaks- separate paraghraphs, graphics, images, videos, ad, email opt-in,
- Writing blog on a website
- Add heading tags- outlines for a blog post
-heading 1 is title of the post
-heading 2 is for main bullet points
-heading 3 tag- anything below that
- Brackets
-insert images, ads or opt-ins in between paragraphs
- Select appropriate cathegory