While writing a blog post I often take at least an hour to formulate and organize what I should say and how I should say it so as to not insult anyone or anything. Unfortunately this is a very late blog post and I have taken about five minutes of my time to write this, so there are bound to be grammatical errors and such. The thing I find extremely perplexing about this situation is that I was told to blog about a satirical part of society. Understandably, I have tried to use my own writing style while catering to the needs of my audience. I feel that I must propose a different plan to you, my audience, on how to blog in English class.
Find a topic or issue you find interesting and one that has been covered in class. Next, form a question or a prompt on how to answer the question. After that, answer your question using one or two sentences. From here expand upon your own answer while adding quotes. These quotes should be no longer than two words to effectively use your derivative skills to find meaning in those two words. To simplify this even further, use descriptive words, that can be positive or negative. Then work these descriptive words into your sentence fluently so that it seems as if it is part of the sentence. Some example phrases are: The author asserted that the "blue" curtains were a symbol of the depressed mood of the "society." Never, ever begin a sentence with a quote or end a paragraph with a quote. Quote sandwiches are your "friends not food," and it is much better to end on some intelligent thought.
Perhaps before this step, you should determine your purpose. Your purpose could be to expose, to assert (minimally), to persuade (those who are already on your side), or to enlighten (those who are are uninformed on the topic). Secondly figure out whether you stand on either side of a yes or no fence, and then proceed from here.
Next determine your audience. In this case it is most likely our English teacher and a few friends who have actually bothered to find the follow button on your blog's main page.
Then start writing about your two sentence response and how you really feel about the topic at the end. However, watch out as you can not be too personal or too strong in your assertions. Maybe add a concession to your piece; it may give you a higher grade to acknowledge the other side of the prompt.
In your conclusion, make sure you provide a call-to-action or a how-this-connects-to-the-real-world sentence or two. This will eventually lead you into a response about how the prompt actually goes towards a higher purpose - making you realize something about the world, society, or writing itself.
The main goal of blogging is to organize your personal thoughts about a matter, and become more organized as a writer, without being too formulaic. This is actually how I organize my thoughts for a blog post: haphazardly and sort of formulaic. My intentions were not to be insulting or whatever maybe taken from this piece. I simply wanted to narrate the story of how I learned to blog.
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