Making a good post

Hello!

Here they are some useful suggestions to improve your English and to make a good post! Based on our observations in class, we've come up with a list of what makes a good blog post. You are welcome, of course, to do what you like with the suggestions, but we all agreed they make reading blogging posts easier. Yesterday, our teacher, Sarah Guth, gave us some pieces of advice in order to improve our English by avoiding mistakes and being more careful at writing! I think I’ll frequently have a look at them and I hope you’ll find them useful. In the end, remember that when you write a post you should check it over and over again.

Hope it helps!

Martina

Checklist list before publishing

- check spelling by using advanced search on google. Look for authoritative sites such as American universities (edu); British universities (ac.uk); or files in pdf, written by professors

- Don’t overuse present perfect

- Pay attention to punctuation

- Be careful at word-order

- Avoid run-on sentences: you cannot put too many clauses and too many commas in one sentence

- Avoid spelling mistakes

- Typical errors:
COMMENT TO ON
MAKE SOMEBODY WRITING WRITE (make somebody + base form)
TAKE PART TO IN
SUBJECT- VERB AGREEMENT

- Before publishing something, read it out loud!


Making a good post by Sarah Guth

- keep it short, not too long

- clearly structured in short paragraphs

- 1 paragraph per idea / link /concept

- keep paragraphs similar lengths

- do what you can to catch the reader's eye

- space between contents

- only center a title or a poem/song lyrics, etc.

- justify a text

- links: not the url but just a clickable word

- links integrated into the text

- use of colors to catch reader's attention, to organize, to define titles and content, but use yellow, orange, red and pink sparingly on a white background as they're difficult to read

- check the size with a preview before publishing

- use bullet points for lists

To sum up: make it readable. English is a writer-responsible language, i.e. you, writer, are responsible for making what you write easy for your reader to read.