Blog Flashcards
What is the audience of a blog?
A blog is a rather indistinct text type in the sense that may or may not have a clearly defined audience (as it is open to anyone on the internet)
What is the purpose of a blog?
Its purpose could be to instruct, inform, entertain or to persuade).
Whatever the subject matter, its register tends to be less formal. It could be considered a sort of conversation between the author and readers, like a oublic diary.
What is the long name of a blog?
Blogpost
What other types are blogs in common with?
In many ways, blogs have a lot in common with magazine articles and opinion pieces
What is the difference of magazine articles and opinion pieces and blogs?
Instead of media institutions deciding what we should read about, independent reader-writers decide the topics for themselves. For this reason, blogs can bequirky, niche, and carrycounter culturalmessages.
Personal anecdote
This may offer the audience a little wisdom on a particular topic gained from personal experience.
Newsworthiness
Blogs often refer to people or events, which many people may find relevant.
Facts/statistics
Blogs often reiterate a fact or statistic that was recently reported in the news.
Personal opinion
These are usually statements that critique, praise or comment on something or someone.
‘How to’ guidance
Blogs can be instructional, offering their audience a kind of step-by-step approach on a particular project.
Call to action
Bloggers may ask their audience to sign a petition, retweet a tweet or forward a message.
Review
In response to a book, film or performance, blogs often offer an analysis or opinion.
Humour
Blogs may have a humorous undertone
Description
Bloggers may describe a product, event or phenomenon
Viewpoint of blogs
Blogs normally represent the interests and opinions of an individual, so are normallyfirst person.
Purpose of blogs
Blogs are guided by individual interests or concerns so the purpose isflexible. A blog might seek toinformreaders about an area of interest, topic or movement.
They may alsodiscussan event or issue. Blogs might even function like an online diary,describingthe day’s events and reflecting on an experience.
Diction of blogs
Depending on the topic, writers of blogs could employ aspecialist vocabularyor usetechnical terms.
Visuals of blogs
Blogs may illustrate the text with cartoons, images or photographs (perhaps illustrated or taken by the writers themselves).
Structure of blogs
Again dependent on the individual text, but you can look out forchronologicalandlinearstructures with subheadings, clear connectives or other features helping organise the text.
