PERSONAL BLOG
Personal blog
- Audience: family members, friends or groups with a common interest
- Characterised by: attention to the everyday interests, a ective needs of individuals
- Functions: describing, narrating, entertaining, recommending, persuading
- Register: vary according to linguistic and socio-cultural norms
Professional texts
- Audience: context of no personal relationship is assumed between the producer and
the recipient but with an interest to receive the message
- Characterised by: attention to the cognitive needs, transfer of knowledge and the
logical presentation of information
- Functions: informing, instructing, explaining, analysing, convincing, interpreting,
evaluating
- Register: formal
Mass media texts
- Audience: targeted because of an interest that lies primarily with the producer of the
text
- Characterised by: the need of the producer of the producer of the text to project
authority, desirability or exclusivity, choice of a particular medium or technology to
reach the audience
- Register: level of formality will vary according to linguistic and socio-cultural norms
What is a blog?
A blog is sort of an online diary that you write so your readers can read it.
Narrative-driven blog
- A narrative of what you have done
- Narrating clearly a set of events
- It may focus on something that you have experienced
Blog can be like an essay, thesis-driven blog
- Bloggers write because they have a particular point of view that they wish to get across
the public
- Thesis, structured as paragraphs with topic sentences related to the thesis and a
conclusion
- Informative or opinionated
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Personal blog
- Audience: family members, friends or groups with a common interest
- Characterised by: attention to the everyday interests, a ective needs of individuals
- Functions: describing, narrating, entertaining, recommending, persuading
- Register: vary according to linguistic and socio-cultural norms
Professional texts
- Audience: context of no personal relationship is assumed between the producer and
the recipient but with an interest to receive the message
- Characterised by: attention to the cognitive needs, transfer of knowledge and the
logical presentation of information
- Functions: informing, instructing, explaining, analysing, convincing, interpreting,
evaluating
- Register: formal
Mass media texts
- Audience: targeted because of an interest that lies primarily with the producer of the
text
- Characterised by: the need of the producer of the producer of the text to project
authority, desirability or exclusivity, choice of a particular medium or technology to
reach the audience
- Register: level of formality will vary according to linguistic and socio-cultural norms
What is a blog?
A blog is sort of an online diary that you write so your readers can read it.
Narrative-driven blog
- A narrative of what you have done
- Narrating clearly a set of events
- It may focus on something that you have experienced
Blog can be like an essay, thesis-driven blog
- Bloggers write because they have a particular point of view that they wish to get across
the public
- Thesis, structured as paragraphs with topic sentences related to the thesis and a
conclusion
- Informative or opinionated
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