Structure of personal blogs 5 & 6. Parts and connections
When structuring a blog post you always need to consider the parts — what are they, where are they, and how are they connected?
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Structure of personal blogs 4. First things first
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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Structure of personal blogs 3. Sequence of ideas
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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Structure of personal blogs 2: density of information
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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Structure of personal blogs 1: length
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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