Personal Blogs

BLOGS

Types

Structure

Tone and Style

Writing to an audience

Personal texts

Professional texts

Mass media texts

They are created by a person who has an intimate relationship with the audience. In this class of texts, attention is paid to the affection that the audience has with the creator.

They have a varied function: describe, persuade, narrate, etc.

They are written for an audience that is not closely related to the writer, but the writer assumes that the audience is interested in what he or she is going to say. It is characterized by connective relationships and the transfer of knowledge and logical information.

Function: Inform, explain, evaluate, etc.

They are created for a massive audience, who supposedly have the same interest or at least they intuit that they have it.

They arise from the need to produce a text by an authority that targets an audience.

The formality that is given to the text depends on the characteristics of the audience: such as its culture, its target language, etc.

Narrative-driven blog

Thesis-driven blog

Focus: In events

Organization: Chronological account of events

Opening: Beginning of the events

Main paragraphs: Different parts of the story with description, explanation and thoughts (reflections).

Ending: Final thought and reflections

Focus: Ideas and opinions

Organization: A reasoned argument

Opening: Thesis/main idea

Main paragraphs: Ideas to support your main idea: point, examples and explanations with reflections.

Ending: Final thought, conclusion and reflections.

As a blogger, your target audience will be those people who share your interests and who are willing to respond or debate your ideas.

You should use more formal language than you would in your journal, but what you say should still be personal.

Use the past tense.

Use connectives.

Descriptive: Events, thoughts, reflections, etc (especially thesis-driven bogs)

If necessary, use imaginative language.