Today, the modern school sets itself the task of forming a well-rounded, developed personality and improving the individual creative abilities of the student. The desire for creativity is inherent in all people to one degree or another, and school helps to develop the creative abilities of the individual. Essay writing is the basis for students’ creative activity.
The development of creative writing abilities is one of the important tasks of education. After all, the process of imagination permeates all stages of the development of the student’s personality and awakens initiative and independence in decisions made, as well as the habit of free self-expression.
Essay writing can help develop students’ creativity so that they can start their blogs successfully in the future. However, many face difficulties while writing. In such a situation, they can get instance help with essay from the experts who work at writing services. Students will receive samples that will teach them how to write interesting papers.
Working with open sources
When students write essays, they need to collect facts for a text. It is important to be able to find quality information on the Internet. The same goes for blogging. If you master the skill of working with open sources, you will get truly interesting texts – while most others will just have a compilation of facts from the first three articles from Google search results.
Googling and reading articles on websites is not a sin. However, there are other great sources of information:
- YouTube videos
- Scientific publications
- Blogs of experts on the topic
- Specialized forums
- Comments under posts and videos
Writing coherently and logically
Few students focus on making their essays more coherent and logical — and in vain because problems with this are quite common.
A great blogger knows how to combine separate facts into a single story: sets the problem, builds cause-and-effect relationships between events, and reveals theses from the general to the specific.
If you don’t pay attention to this, the reader will get the feeling: “The words are familiar, but overall nothing is clear.”
Working with text structure
All students should structure their essays properly to get high grades. It is one of the most important aspects of academic writing. Getting this skill will greatly help you in writing blog posts.
The structure is often compared to the skeleton on which the entire narrative rests. You can think through the order of the narrative in advance and make a clear text, or you can pour out a stream of consciousness that no one but you will understand. The task of the structure is to make the text clear and predictable for the reader.
Okay, we figured out why this is necessary. The simplest thing remains – to figure out how to make a good structure.
Group your thoughts
Do you know the difference between a well-structured text and a stream of consciousness?
In a stream of consciousness, thoughts go in the order in which the author thought them. First one thing, then another, then “by the way, I just remembered” – and then the first thing again.
In cinematography, there are such concepts as flashback (when we interrupt the narrative to show events from the past) and flashforward (when we look into the future). These are good techniques for fiction, but for blog post writing, they are simply terrible.
The reader will get confused in the endless series of “by the way,” “remember, we will come back to this,” and “we already wrote above, go back and reread,” and will not understand you and will leave. No one will jump back and forth through the text and reread individual pieces to collect a complete picture in their head.
If we make the analogy with cities, it’s like if after the 2nd house, there will be the 10th, then the 6th, and then two 4s at once.
The flow of thoughts can be written at the stage of the thesis plan. We dump everything that is in our heads on paper and then group the facts by meaning – this is how sections are obtained. Then we arrange the sections in order of logic or importance – and now we have a ready structure.
In the final text, each fact should be in its place.
If you have a large text, the usual two-level structure “Article → Section” may not be enough. In this case, you will have to create subsections.
Choose between sequential and parallel narrative
A sequential narrative is when each subsequent thought follows from the previous one. It is suitable when you need to explain something, argue, or tell a story.
Parallel narration is when thoughts are not connected to each other, and they can be read in any order or selectively. If we skip one of the parallel blocks, we will still understand the general gist.
This is convenient when we have a set of facts, but we do not know which ones will interest the reader. We simply dump them all, make convenient navigation – and the reader decides what to read.
Sections and subsections also have their own structure. Therefore, several forms of narration can be mixed into one text. For example, this article consists of several tips that can be read in any order. This is a parallel structure. But each tip is a separate sequential story. The stories themselves should be read from beginning to end – this is a sequential structure.
At the planning stage, think about where you will have a coherent story and where you will have just a set of facts in no particular reading order.
Simplify navigation
Texts on the Internet are rarely read from beginning to end. Usually, the reader skims, picks out something important, and goes there. Sometimes, on the contrary, your text is so important that people will want to reread some parts of it several times.
Therefore, readers need help to navigate. Headlines are responsible for this. The headline should make it clear what this section is about.
“But what about creativity?!” you ask. If you can do it creatively and clearly, that would be great. If you can’t do this, just make it clear. It will be much better than just being creative.
The highest level of skill is when the heading not only shows the content of the section but also contains useful information. This is how the headings are made in this article. Each of them is like a short tip, which is revealed in detail inside the section.
If your text is too long, make a hypertext table of contents at the beginning – a list of links that can be used to go to the desired section.
Important things should be in a prominent place
Readers don’t have an infinite amount of time, and your text is not a new book by George Martin that makes people drop everything and read it to pieces.
It doesn’t matter what you’re doing: an article for a blog, a landing page, or an essay – you need to fight for the reader’s attention. If they get bored, they will leave. If they don’t understand, they will leave. If they can’t find an answer to their question, they will leave again.
Therefore, place the most important and interesting information in the most visible places:
- At the beginning of the text, section, paragraph
- Near the illustration
- In the title
- In all sorts of quotes, color plates, etc.
How should you do this while writing a blog post? If you make a long, boring introduction, then no one will read the interesting part. If you must tell readers about something boring, throw it somewhere at the end. That is why all sorts of footnotes, explanations for asterisks, and legal information are written at the very end – so the reader does not get bored.
*This is a collaborative post. All views and texts are my own.
A former school teacher, Jocelyn Brown created Hip Mama’s Place in 2007. Her motto for this blog is: get inspired, create and share! Jocelyn loves sharing about food and recipes, crafts, DIY projects and her random travels with her family. She also loves all things social media, but her latest obsession is Instagram.
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