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Hello all, and welcome to another blog. I'm Chris, Grey, Topher (pls no), or whatever you want to call me. This is the second installment to The Quality Experiment series, and incase you missed the first one, please check it out here. It includes various tips on how to make your blog look clean and rewarding. In this post, I'll be talking about composition and different types of writing you can use to attract readers. Let's begin!
Basic Grammar and Punctuation
Grammar and punctation are simple but obvious factors in creating good composition. First, let's start out with grammar. Since everything on the internet has text, it's best to know how to spell things out. Without that basic knowledge of how to spell things, several things can happen: A) you won't be taken seriously, B) you can't be understood because of your terrible grammar, or C) you'll be ridiculed for having terrible grammar. Either way, knowing how to spell words isn't that hard. We live in an age where almost all information is on the internet, and travels on the internet. Take 5 seconds of your time and search through Google (or even Bing... or Ask Jeeves?) and type in your word. Google will almost always auto-correct you if you're wrong, and sometimes provide a definition. The internet is honestly the key to anything -- don't try to make excuses for poor grammar.
As for punctuation, be sure to know when and how to use it. Let's remember the inspirational words by Prof. Oak "There's a time and place for everything!" and this includes punctuation. When I grade English papers, the first thing that I notice new writers do is the overuse of the semi-colon (;) or the dash (-). When starting out with writing, it's hard to distinguish when and where to use these things. My best advice, if you don't know how to use it, don't use it. Worse case scenario, you use it wrong and your sentence can't be understood by any means. If you do know how to use them, use them sparringly; try not to use them every sentence. This applies for commas too! A comma is used for a break in a sentence, but sometimes they can be over-used to a point where it seems like you're breathing heavily between sentences, or you neglect to use them making run-on sentences. If anything, this requires more practice. Keep making blogs and improve each time.
Grammar and punctuation should come with practice. All great bloggers started out poorly, but imrpoved with each post -- composition-wise. Take a look at OliverFrenchie, Snowylips, or any other great blogger. Look at their first blog, then look at their most recent. The improvement should be noteworthy; their blogs aesthetics look amazing, wording is awesome, and even more. You could take hours analyzing their blogs and seeing what works and what doesn't. The important thing to know is that they know how to spell and punctuate. Now it's your turn: practice, practice, practice. Keep working at your goal for an awesome blog, it can only get better.
Types of Writing
There are many types of writing and PMC does a good job on distinguishing categories. But remember, literature is a lot more complicated and beautiful. You can use this to your advantage to take a complicated topic and turn it into humor, or make it easier to understand by using useful literary tips. In this section, I'll be using two important things that can help you make a humorous blog (since who doesn't love humor?)
IRONY: any device which involves a difference between what appears to be and what is, or the literal meaning is different from the intended meaning, or what is expected is different from what happens or is true. Irony can have humorous, serious, or even tragic implications. For example...
Or...
Using irony in your work makes it more interesting, and it's even better if you know how to use it. Try it out every once in a while. Another good device to use is...
SATIRE: a mode of writing that criticizes through ridicule. For example...
This one is a little harder to implement. Satire is a complicated form of humor (in a way that there are a lot of other types of humor similar). Criticism without sarcasm is not satire, so is comedy without implied criticism. The subject can be foolishness, stupidity, and/or evil persons, ideas, or customs. The whole purpose is to amuse/entertain, expose/shame, etc. The tone varies on it's purpose!
It's good to try and change up your style; try these examples. They may be a little complicated to understand, but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty fun.
Positioning and Paragraphs
Although content is great, there has to be a time where you'll be able to compose your work. When typing your blog out, find a good place to end a paragraph. My general rule of thumb is to look at your wall of text and divide it into three paragraphs per section. Each paragraph has to have atleast 4-8 lines. Otherwise, it looks short and your effort is wasted. Spacing is critical, especially when the average age of this site is pretty low. Keep paragraphs somewhat short and interesting (this series is long because it's a tutorial, but I hope it's worth it!).
Position your paragraphs thoughtfully: use the space to your advantage. Afterall, Minecraft is a video game (a type of art!). Try to be artistic with your positioning, but not complicated. Keep it simple by having even or odd spaces inbetween your paragraphs (for example, between paragraphs I usually hit ENTER once, but between the new section header and the last paragraph of the previous section, I hit ENTER twice for the horitzontal rule).
Remember, divide and conquer! Wall of texts are boring and hurt your beautiful writing. Keeping everything separate and organized is what makes writers popular, besides their lovely text. I recommend taking a little of your time to study how to position sentences or paragraphs by looking at online newspapers (BBC, NYtimes, etc.), since they are very good at summarizing articles and spacing their sentences/paragraphs carefully. If you notice, they're interesting reads not just because they're written well, but because the spacing is strongly emphasized. Use this to your advantage!
That's About It...
I believe that's all I can offer for now. I apologize for the brick wall of text, but someone's gotta do it. If you have any questions, constructive criticism, or comments, please let me know below and I'll do my best to respond. Thank you so much for reading (especially this far!)
Basic Grammar and Punctuation
Grammar and punctation are simple but obvious factors in creating good composition. First, let's start out with grammar. Since everything on the internet has text, it's best to know how to spell things out. Without that basic knowledge of how to spell things, several things can happen: A) you won't be taken seriously, B) you can't be understood because of your terrible grammar, or C) you'll be ridiculed for having terrible grammar. Either way, knowing how to spell words isn't that hard. We live in an age where almost all information is on the internet, and travels on the internet. Take 5 seconds of your time and search through Google (or even Bing... or Ask Jeeves?) and type in your word. Google will almost always auto-correct you if you're wrong, and sometimes provide a definition. The internet is honestly the key to anything -- don't try to make excuses for poor grammar.
As for punctuation, be sure to know when and how to use it. Let's remember the inspirational words by Prof. Oak "There's a time and place for everything!" and this includes punctuation. When I grade English papers, the first thing that I notice new writers do is the overuse of the semi-colon (;) or the dash (-). When starting out with writing, it's hard to distinguish when and where to use these things. My best advice, if you don't know how to use it, don't use it. Worse case scenario, you use it wrong and your sentence can't be understood by any means. If you do know how to use them, use them sparringly; try not to use them every sentence. This applies for commas too! A comma is used for a break in a sentence, but sometimes they can be over-used to a point where it seems like you're breathing heavily between sentences, or you neglect to use them making run-on sentences. If anything, this requires more practice. Keep making blogs and improve each time.
Grammar and punctuation should come with practice. All great bloggers started out poorly, but imrpoved with each post -- composition-wise. Take a look at OliverFrenchie, Snowylips, or any other great blogger. Look at their first blog, then look at their most recent. The improvement should be noteworthy; their blogs aesthetics look amazing, wording is awesome, and even more. You could take hours analyzing their blogs and seeing what works and what doesn't. The important thing to know is that they know how to spell and punctuate. Now it's your turn: practice, practice, practice. Keep working at your goal for an awesome blog, it can only get better.
Types of Writing
There are many types of writing and PMC does a good job on distinguishing categories. But remember, literature is a lot more complicated and beautiful. You can use this to your advantage to take a complicated topic and turn it into humor, or make it easier to understand by using useful literary tips. In this section, I'll be using two important things that can help you make a humorous blog (since who doesn't love humor?)
IRONY: any device which involves a difference between what appears to be and what is, or the literal meaning is different from the intended meaning, or what is expected is different from what happens or is true. Irony can have humorous, serious, or even tragic implications. For example...
Or...
Using irony in your work makes it more interesting, and it's even better if you know how to use it. Try it out every once in a while. Another good device to use is...
SATIRE: a mode of writing that criticizes through ridicule. For example...
This one is a little harder to implement. Satire is a complicated form of humor (in a way that there are a lot of other types of humor similar). Criticism without sarcasm is not satire, so is comedy without implied criticism. The subject can be foolishness, stupidity, and/or evil persons, ideas, or customs. The whole purpose is to amuse/entertain, expose/shame, etc. The tone varies on it's purpose!
It's good to try and change up your style; try these examples. They may be a little complicated to understand, but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty fun.
Positioning and Paragraphs
Although content is great, there has to be a time where you'll be able to compose your work. When typing your blog out, find a good place to end a paragraph. My general rule of thumb is to look at your wall of text and divide it into three paragraphs per section. Each paragraph has to have atleast 4-8 lines. Otherwise, it looks short and your effort is wasted. Spacing is critical, especially when the average age of this site is pretty low. Keep paragraphs somewhat short and interesting (this series is long because it's a tutorial, but I hope it's worth it!).
Position your paragraphs thoughtfully: use the space to your advantage. Afterall, Minecraft is a video game (a type of art!). Try to be artistic with your positioning, but not complicated. Keep it simple by having even or odd spaces inbetween your paragraphs (for example, between paragraphs I usually hit ENTER once, but between the new section header and the last paragraph of the previous section, I hit ENTER twice for the horitzontal rule).
Remember, divide and conquer! Wall of texts are boring and hurt your beautiful writing. Keeping everything separate and organized is what makes writers popular, besides their lovely text. I recommend taking a little of your time to study how to position sentences or paragraphs by looking at online newspapers (BBC, NYtimes, etc.), since they are very good at summarizing articles and spacing their sentences/paragraphs carefully. If you notice, they're interesting reads not just because they're written well, but because the spacing is strongly emphasized. Use this to your advantage!
That's About It...
I believe that's all I can offer for now. I apologize for the brick wall of text, but someone's gotta do it. If you have any questions, constructive criticism, or comments, please let me know below and I'll do my best to respond. Thank you so much for reading (especially this far!)
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Also, 2 of your images don't work xD
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