Transcript Slide 1

Preface from Alejandro explaining why this book
was created……
A good blogger has to have tips from someone
who has good experience. Someone, but who?
Oh yeah, me! I will tell you some good tips that
come up in my brain. Hop on to the T.A.G. (tips
are good) Machine. You’ll also hear some great
tips from my “Blooming Bloggers” buddies.
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You should always let someone check your
work before posting it to anyone, even if it’s
your baby sister or your friend. So remember
that you are always supposed to reread
before you give it to anyone. Read your post
out loud. it is better then reading in your
head. This lets you see if it makes sense or
not.
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Work at making your story more exciting to
make the reader want to read it more. You
want the reader to actually like it and not
look sleepy or look at you with an expression
on his or her face, like you don't know how to
write anything.
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Use a dictionary to check your spelling. A
dictionary will help you make that word part
of your memory.
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Make sure there are no run-on sentences.
This is a sentence that goes on and on and on
and has no periods. Your readers will move
on and read something else. You want them
to stay on your blog.
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Write about current events that are
happening around the world. Think of
writing something really cool that people
around the world would love to read. You
could also add pictures in your post. You
can draw or take the pictures with a
camera.
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Express your opinion! Your readers would
want to read how you feel about your
topic. Then they can agree or disagree
and it will make your blog more engaging.
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Catch your reader’s attention! Make your
first sentence so interesting that your
readers will not be able to keep
themselves from reading more.
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Sentence fluency. Your sentences should
flow together so that your post is easy to
understand. Sentences that do not flow
will only confuse the reader.
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Be yourself. A good blogger will include
their own writing from their brains. DO
NOT COPY SOMEONE ELSE’S WORK.
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Take a break. If you take a break every
once in a while and then come back to
your blog, your brain will be refreshed
with ideas waiting to be used.
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Let your individuality shine. Include your
feelings, reactions and thoughts.
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If you want people to be absorbed in
your blog, sidetrack those boring words
and come up with your own expressive
words.
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•Ask questions. If you don’t have any ideas ask yourself if you have had an experience like
the situation you are in. Also ask other people for ideas.
•Just keep writing. Keep writing until you think that you are done. Record the story and
take out what you don’t like. Also, you can add things.
•Don’t exaggerate the truth. If you are writing a repoet don’t include things that you don’t
know are true. However, if you look it up and get information you can add it to your post.
Then the facts will be authentic.
•Don’t give up. If you are frustrated and can’t get a topic. Don’t give up. Start again. If you
do this you can get new ideas.
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Make your blog entertaining.
Readers like blogs that have
humor and make them laugh or
smile.
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Use vivid words. Always use
higher level thinking words from
Bloom's Taxonomy, like organize,
describe, group, and paraphrase.
A blog that includes words that
are not used every day will grab
the reader’s attention.
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Organize your writing with a
good beginning, middle, and
end. Pretend you are writing to a
very important person.
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Make your sentences flow and stick to the
topic. Get your thinking caps on and
always stop, think, and check.
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If you should get a bad comment, don’t
let it sidetrack you. Keep doing the right
thing and don’t respond. Stop, tell your
teacher, delete, and get back to blogging.
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Never feel bad about your post. If you
like it and feel OK with it, then leave it.
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When you think you have a great blog,
ask yourself the following questions: Did I
bump up my work? Did I do my best? Did I
reread and check for mistakes?
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Ask yourself if you have sentence fluency,
an organized idea, and an interesting
topic. Then your blog will explode with
neatness and excitement!
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Check Check Check Check It! So if
you don't make mistakes readers
will think a grownup wrote it.
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Load your blog with hot topics! This
will get the reader to stay and read
like a dog in a swimming pool!
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Finish your posts with questions.
That will make the reader think
about what you wrote and you can
think about what they write back.
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Have your own personal voice. Express
your personality and have a conversation
with a reader. Try not to make the story
you wrote boring so that no one will ever
read your writing. When I'm talking about
your personal voice I mean showing
expression in your writing. Be proud of
what you write.
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When your writing on a weblog you should
use descriptive writing, punctuation, lots
of details, a good lead, vivid vocabulary,
organization, and always end it with a
thought provoking questions.
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Place strong words in the beginning of
your sentences. This will hook the reader.
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When I write I always worry a little about
what people will think. This is a good thing
because you will try to make your writing
come alive. Think outside the blog. Trust
your own opinions.
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Try to leave the reader hanging and wondering
what will come next when he or she is reading
your post.
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Make sure you put your details in order or else
you might make your readers confused! This is
called organization and readers like that.
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Choose many different topics to write about
on your blog. This will keep your readers from
being bored. You will also learn more.
Remember to always have a great opening.
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Always believe in yourself! Follow what you
think is right. Don’t let anything bad get to
you. It is like 2 knights fighting and one of
them said the other one was a bad sword
fighter. Don’t get discouraged, keep writing
and fighting back.
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Make sure you don’t write about gossip. Only
write about the truth. Writing about gossip is
misleading and confusing. opinions.
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Make your ideas and content so
understandable and satisfying that they show
your personality and your writing can be a way
for students to learn.
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Use your voice. Ask this question: “Can I hear
my voice in this writing?”
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Before you write brainstorm all your ideas.
Then organize your writing so your sentences
flow, and choose words that make sense so
your readers can understand your writing.
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Personality works! A good blogger always
shows her true colors by expressing genuine
feelings.
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A Blogger’s Word Choice! Use any word that
you need to make the writing come alive.
Make the readers want to keep reading more
and more and more!
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Be open-minded. A good blogger has to learn from
his or her mistakes. This will make you more
experienced. It means you are willing to take
suggestions.
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Make the readers' eyes stick to your post like glue
with a catchy lead. Here is a catchy lead from
Alejandro. Hey would you like to transform your
writing into a masterpiece? His lead made me
want to read his post. A catchy lead will make the
readers hang on to every word you're saying.
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Use hyperlinks when you take a paragraph or
sentence from another person's writing and give
credit to them. You also respond to the sentence.
Weblogging has changed my life in many ways. One
of the changes is that I have my own voice.
Weblogging has also made me a better thinker and
writer.
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Be prepared for anything. You never know what will
turn up on your comments. Almost all th e time you
will get good comments. An occasional bad
comment can always be deleted. Comments let you
have fascinating conversations with other people
from around the world.
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Spend time on answering your comments. I
get to answer people’s comments and
they get to talk back to my answers to
their comments. So, it's like having a
conversation on the computer! Cool, isn't
it? It helps you learn so pay attention to
comments.
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You must use words that make it seem like
you’re talking to the reader. Just talk like
you normally talk. Don't talk like the
reader wants you to talk. Talk with
feeling. Let them feel like you're right
beside the person.
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When you"re writing you can't just write
what your teacher would like. Instead put
yourself into the story. You must be the
words. You must understand the story.
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Words are important! You won’t have
a lot of success if you use the same
dull words over and over again. A
successful blogger enjoys writing and
putting everything they can in their
writing.
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Make sure your paper sticks to your
topic. Always talk about the same
thing using different ideas. Make
sure your details are in sequence.
That makes it easy to read and
follow the ideas you are sharing.
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Put quotes from other people in your
posts. That will make your writing
have other voices in it.
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Never let anyone discourage your writing. If
they say bad thing about your writing, just
ignore it. Have fun with your writing, make it
show your voice, it is apart of you.
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Weblogging is when you can have the
freedom to express yourself, and write about
whatever you want to! You have to be careful
when you write because you could be writing
in front of the whole world! You want to be a
role model for other school bloggers.
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When you proof-read your writing, add in
extra and more exciting things. Then read
your story over and over again until you
KNOW it is the right one.
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Think long and short. Include a variety of
sentences and details. Make sure your
sentences are complete and you don’t have
sentence fragments. This means that you
have checked your writing and it’s ready to
be shown in public.
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Use words that make your writing seem as if it
comes alive to the reader.
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Make sure that you write as you would talk. This
will make your writing understandable and people
will feel like they know you.
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Write about something your are interested or else it
makes your writing seem boring.
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Research! When you are writing always make
sure that you have enough information to make it
interesting and accurate.
Six Traits of Writing
We brainstormed each of the six traits of writing and came up with questions
to ask ourselves about the six traits. We will strive to apply this to our
writing.
Ideas and Content
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What is my topic?
Is my paper clear?
Did I try to make my writing come alive?
Do I have enough details?
Do I have a good beginning, middle and end?
Does my reader understand what I am trying to say?
Have I included any dialogue?
What about writing my ideas down and choosing the best
one?
• Do I have an organization?
• Do I have enough ideas?
Organization
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How does my topic start?
Are the details in order?
Is my paper easy to read?
Is my paper in time order?
Does my writing have a good beginning?
Are all the details in the correct sequence?
Do my links go with my message?
How does my topic end?
Voice
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Is this interesting to me?
Did I give my opinion?
Did I say everything I wanted to?
What did I like the most?
Did my readers feel like they heard my voice?
Do I like what I wrote?
Am I comfortable with what I wrote?
Does the story match my attitude?
How do I want my readers to feel?
Word Choice
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Does your writing flow?
Have I used any exciting words?
Did you use vivid vocabulary?
Did I use different or interesting words?
Will they make a good comment?
Do you have descriptive words?
Did I grab my readers attention with my words?
Are my words in the right place?
Sentence Fluency
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Did I use a lot of sentences?
Did I use complete sentences?
Did I use correct sentences?
Do my sentence beginnings have big and different ideas?
Do my sentences make sense?
Does my story sound real?
Did I complete what I was trying to say?
Did I use the same starting words?
Does my paper sound smooth as I read it aloud?
Did I use some long and some short sentences?
Conventions
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Do my words have spaces between them?
Does my title go with my story?
Does my punctuation show my sentence expressions?
Do I have spelling errors?
Do I have the correct capitalization in my sentences?
Can people understand my writing?
Does my paper have a main idea?
Is my paper understandable?
Did I use correct punctuation?