Personal blog
Personal texts
Professional texts
Mass media texts
audience: onleself, friends, family memebrs or groups with a common interest
everyday interests or the affective needs of individuals
describing, narrating, entertaining, recommending, persuading
level of formality: depends on linguistic and socio-cultural norms of the target language
audience: no personal connections between the author and the recipients
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
audience: large, unspecified audience
author projects authority, desirability, or exclusivity
formality depends on norms of the targeted language
Structure
a narrative-driven blog
Writing to an audience
Tone and style
Other advises
Video advises
required stuff
technology required: computer, laptop, ipad
a website
a pen and paper or journal
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
thesis-driven blog
organization: chronological account of events
a particular point that a blogger eants to get across to the public
informative and opinionated
blogger's opinion, reflections and feeling shoud be conveyed to the reader
focus: events
important event in your life, or big events, like excursion- something that you have experienced
opening: beggining of the event(s)
main paragraphs: different parts of the story with description, explanation and thoughts (reflections)
ending: final thought and reflections
focus: ideas and opinions
organization: a reasoned argument
opening: thesis/main idea
main paragraphs: ideas to support your main idea- point, examples and explanations with reflections
ending: fina thought, conclusion, and relections
ask audience directly and ask them to respond to your ideas
formal language, personal, dominant voice
narrative-driven blog
the past tense
thesis-driving blog
join sentences using time connectives
chatty and informal language, imaginative
descriptive detail of events
when writing aboout conversations, you can use reported speech
more subjetive and contains more descriptive detail than essay
reflections and described reactions written in an informal manner
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
always ensure that you use the first person singular "I" and that your register is not too formal
emphasising point of view in the conclusion
- 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