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===[[Choosing Your Topic|<i>Choosing Your Topic</i>]] by Amy Rehner=== | ===[[Choosing Your Topic|<i>Choosing Your Topic</i>]] by Amy Rehner=== | ||
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Research is the process of gathering information, evaluating it, and applying it to a question or problem.When writing for digital media, research allows writers to narrow their focus. Having a narrow focus makes a blog more interesting and the writer an expert on the topic. | Research is the process of gathering information, evaluating it, and applying it to a question or problem.When writing for digital media, research allows writers to narrow their focus. Having a narrow focus makes a blog more interesting and the writer an expert on the topic. | ||
===[[Interactivity|<i>Interactivity</i>]] by Marian Brewer=== | ===[[Interactivity|<i>Interactivity</i>]] by Marian Brewer=== | ||
Revision as of 13:13, 11 April 2013
Focus (Group Leader Shanna Dixon)
Choosing Your Topic by Amy Rehner
Research Methods by Melissa Grantham
Research is the process of gathering information, evaluating it, and applying it to a question or problem.When writing for digital media, research allows writers to narrow their focus. Having a narrow focus makes a blog more interesting and the writer an expert on the topic.
Interactivity by Marian Brewer
Audience by Shanna Dixon
Organization (Group Leader Nadine Epperson)
To maintain readership of a blog, a writer must create an organized space. Quality content can easily be overlooked on a cluttered, inconsistent page. Organization includes the overall structure of the site as well as the individual posts. There are several things that contribute to this consistency. Categories and tags aid in narrowing the focus of each post within the blog. Headers and sub-headers should give the reader a clear indication of what is contained in each section. By using lists, digital media writers can highlight important content, break up posts, and guide readers through a sequence of information. Links connect the page to other sites on the internet and offer access to other portions of the blog. All of these elements support the structure of an organized, consistent environment for content.
Categorizing Posts by Candice Barca
Categorizing a post is vital to the structure and organization of a blog. Categories help readers quickly identify the content of a blog. Tags provide specific information while grouping together like posts. Together categories and tags make it easier for readers to navigate the information within a blog.
Headers and Sub-headers by Chrissonia McCall
Lists by Tiory Clark
Links
No page on the internet stands alone. The connection of sites on the internet is what makes the web interactive. Links play a vital role in maintaining this interactivity. By connecting to other areas of the internet, readers are given access to an unlimited pool of information.
Writing Style (Group Leader Kristin Hanlin)
Readability by Andrew Clouse
Scan-ability by Kristin Hanlin
Brevity by Haley Clarke
Inverted Pyramid by Siobahn Fisher
College students should familiarize themselves with the inverted pyramid. This design for news and information delivery via the web will help new bloggers quickly achieve brevity while communicating in a concise way. The inverted pyramid is important to the retention of a blog's audience.