Blogging is hard. There are so many ways to throw together a blog that it’s hard to pick just one, but you won’t get anywhere unless you can stay consistent. So, the good folks at ProfWrite decided to pick a style for you. Today, we’ll be going over a way to throw a good old classic soft skill blog together.
What is Blogging?: The Blog
Hopefully, if you’re reading this blog, you have a good idea of what blogging is. Specifically, though, we’ll be blogging about soft skills, and that requires a certain format. This document, along with our Style Guide, should give you a good understanding of what blogging is about to mean to you.
Blogging in Your Personal Life
Well, more blogging about their personal lives. There are numerous ways your soft skill can help the people reading your posts, and these ways will pertain to more than just one area of the readers’ lives. You’ll want to include a section(a paragraph, at least) about at least two of the following: “[SOFT SKILL] in Your Personal Life”, “[SOFT SKILL] at School”, and “[SOFT SKILL] in Your Workplace”. Make them big paragraphs too, bigger than this one. These are where the meat of your blog lies.
Blogging in the Workplace
The Workplace and School sections should be no different in format than the Personal Life one, and they should be of similar length as well. I’ll take this paragraph to write a little about quotes and other special cases as well.
“Make sure to use the Quotes format for emphatic quotes only and cite the author properly.”
Abraham Lincoln (1)
Note the “(1)”; that’ll come in handy later. If a quote is helpful but not the core of a section, you can just write it normally. As Albert Einstein famously said, “Just do it like this.”(2) You can also add bullet lists. It’s:
- Easy
- Fun
- Completely free!
If for some reason you need an image, you can do that, but don’t rely on it. It could make your blog annoying.
Try not to weigh down a section with gimmicky stuff like this, though. Do as I say, not as I do: include at most one quote, list, or image per section.
Becoming a Better Blogger
Once the reader knows your soft skill is cool, you should teach them how to improve it. This can be of any length as long as it fits. You may include ways you’ve improved that skill yourself, research on the subjects, or just advice articles if that’s all you have. There are a few more things you ought to know regarding the blog’s style. Write in a more casual, conversational tone, but avoid slang and alternate spellings. This isn’t particularly formal writing, so don’t worry about using “I” or “you”. You can do that; I won’t stop you. Also, some thought ought to be given to the featured image. Fun comics that relate to the subject are great, but you can rely on stock images that relate to your skill if there happen to be no relevant comics or you’re feeling uncreative. Make sure to include the featured image at the beginning of your post as well, and credit any images that aren’t original. Finally, include a catchy concluding sentence, much unlike this one.
Sources Cited:
- Albert Einstein, Pride and Prejudice (Berlin: Penguin Classics, 1927), 184.
- Abraham Lincoln, Pride and Prejudice For Vampire Hunters (Washington, D.C.: Penguin Classics, 1862), 324.
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