You are writing a blog post. There’s probably one point that you want people to grasp if they grasp nothing else. The most influential position is right at the beginning of any document, in the first headline or sentence or paragraph. That’s where your main point belongs.
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When you’re fiddling with a blog post, you often want to make several major points. In what order will you introduce them? Did you know that there are more than thirteen classic ways of sequencing ideas in formal writing? If you match your article to one of those models, even loosely, it’s a win for […]
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In structure we’re not looking at a blog’s meaning or message or content except as a kind of stuff. This “stuff” can be measured: how much information?
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So we’re looking at how to structure a post on a personal blog, and the most obvious element is length. For a non-commercial blog, the decision is yours.
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Do you think about structure when you write a blog post? I thought not. Let me introduce the 6 elements of structure. Not content or style, but structure.
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