Getting Started with Blogging (A Prompt for Students)
Blogging is one of the best tools for students in any field of education because it is a free tool for decently sharing your knowledge and experience. According to the Oxford Dictionary term Blog means that:
It is a regular record of thoughts, opinions, or experiences that one puts on the internet for others to read.
As the educational system is developing and adopting a virtual form of educating students. Therefore, writing a blog is a suitable activity for students which motivates them to read and write by heart. Writing is a core skill of academics, moreover, students are unaware of such productive tools that can boost their other skills.
As Nicole Brun-Mercer mentioned that students need to improve their reading skills by adopting 21st-century skills for reading. Internet is a smart tool for smartly connecting the world, that people from north to south and east to the west go through the same things in a short time. Furthermore, new technology bought fast access to anything that is virtually available.
As a reader, one must care about the content he/she is reading and synthesize the true information with the help of the Reliability Graphic Organizer. If you are a good reader must practice writing. Reading and writing move parallel, reading can be more productive, when he/she practices writing.
Practice makes a man perfect. Blogging is beneficial for students and it motivates them to write in a good manner, so one can enjoy his/her reading their experiences. When a blog writer writes a post he/she has an idea that readers have enough knowledge, they can catch your mistakes and false ideas. In this way, the blog-writer is self-motivated to overcome his/her mistakes. And also he has an idea that readers are valuing his/her content, so I must provide quality material to them. Hence, they can get useful information from your blog.
Slowly and gradually you will be confident in writing. Writing a blog post is not ordinary writing. It is one of the technical writing so that it can reach readers or those who are interested in such content you post on your blog. I believe that when you deal with writing techniques you can pen down a critical viewpoint on a subject matter. And you will be dealing a content in an organized pattern that you usually follow in your blog post.
How should a blog post be?
It is a short and long essay blog-writer writes using the following techniques:
Keywords, paragraph, conversational tone, heading and sub-headings, and graphic representation.
Blog-post writer focuses on keywords that are similar to your topic and also have high search volume and low competition that can boost your blog on top ranking in the search engine like ranking on Google’s first or second page. Furthermore, he uses such keywords in a post so one can find his/her content when they search such specific words on Google. There are number of keyword research tools, for instance: MOOZ, Ahrefs, Keyword Tool, etc. Writing is largely concerned with how someone catches readers' intentions and it can be done when the writer divides ideas in his writing. A paragraph is one of the best techniques to discuss one idea shortly and wonderfully. Blogger writes his/their experiences and knowledge critically. A blog-post writer uses a conversational tone of writing so he/she can attract the reader and make them feel that someone is talking to you. Thinking about reader intention is very much important while writing a blog post and engaging them productively.
- Headings and Sub-headings:
Once you have done different paragraphs about any topic, it is important to put under suitable headings and sub-headings, so that readers can scan and skim your writings. Through this technical writing, you can develop your writing skill that how to put an idea with a specific heading. Furthermore, you will be defining the topic in different viewpoints using sub-headings. Using a picture related to your content is also a part of a blog post. And blog writer creates a unique picture for a post that reflects what he/she is writing in the post. Search engines not only rank your written content with this they rank your images on top pages. So, using a decent picture that can improve your readers' and searcher's experience. Use copyright-free images on your blog so it will be a positive point for your blog, and you can find copyright-free images here: Picsabay, Pexels, etc.
To conclude, a blog is informal writing where you can share your knowledge and experiences. I recommend all students that start a blog, it will help them to read and write more carefully and how should be a written piece. Writing is important and you will be having a free and productive way of sharing your ideas. Furthermore, it can generate passive income.
