BLOG WRITING

 

Blog Writing-

History of blog writing:

A blog is a write-up that people share online. 

It dates back to 1994. 

In this online journal, you could talk about your daily life or share things you do. 

However, people got an opportunity to communicate information in a new way. 

So began the beautiful world of blogging.

What is a Blog?

A blog (shortening of “weblog”) is an online journal or informational website displaying information in the reverse chronological order, with latest posts appearing first. It is a platform where a writer or even a group of writers share their views on an individual subject. Each entry is called a post.

Blog structure

The appearance of blogs changed over the course of time. Most blogs include some standard features and structure. Here are some common features that a typical blog will include:

•  Header with the menu or navigation bar
•  Main content area with highlighted or latest blog posts
•  Sidebar with social profiles, favourite content, or call-to-action

•  Footer with relevant links like a disclaimer, privacy policy, contact page, etc.

Here's a list of reasons why people blog and how blogging can benefit your personal or professional life.

• Express yourself and share your passions.
• Make a difference.
• Share interesting information.
• Refine your writing skills.
• Learn how to make money online.
• Build your professional network.

• Earn more media exposure.

Importance of Blogs
1. Blogs refine your thoughts
2. Blogs	reward the creator
3. Blogs increase knowledge
4. Blogs	connect us to our people
5. Blogs	give introverts a voice
6. Blogs	reward the “new age” publishers
7. Blogs accelerate discovery
8. Blogs	open up a world without  borders

How to Write a Blog  Post in  Five Easy  Steps

Step 1 :  Plan your blog post by choosing a topic, creating an outline, conducting research and checking facts.

Step 2 : Give it an attractive title.

Step 3 : Draft a headline that is both informative and will capture the reader’s attention.

Step 4 :  Have an introduction, lead and concluding paragraph that sums up the blog post. Add your personal experience.

Step 4 : Use images to enhance your post, improve its flow, add humour, and explain complex topics. Use short paragraphs, simple and short sentences and words.

Step 5 : Edit your blog post. Make sure to avoid repetition. Read your post aloud to check its flow. Have someone else read it and provide feedback. Keep sentences and paragraphs short. It is alright to delete or modify your writing at the last moment. End your post with a discussion question.

Examples of blog writing:

Write a blog in about 100 to 150 words on 'Personality Development'.

Compose HTML Publish Save Preview  Englishgrammarclass.com        Posting as Dr. Tukaram Salunkhe Personality Development          Personality development is the relatively long-lasting pattern of bringing positive change in thoughts, feelings, and behaviour that distinguish individuals from one another. It means enhancing and grooming one’s outer and inner self to bring about a positive change in life. Each individual has a distinct persona that can be developed, polished and refined. The whole process of this development takes place over a period of time. Here are the few things that you can work out. ·         Smile. And smile some more. It adds to your face value and to your personality as well. ·         Read a few articles in the newspaper loudly. This will help in communicating fluently. ·         Follow table manners and etiquettes. ·         Take good care of health. ·         Prepare a chart that mentions your strength and weaknesses. Now concentrate on the letter and find ways to improve upon the same. ·         Spend some time alone concentrating on you and yourself alone. ·         Practice meditation and yoga. It will help you develop inner peace and harmony that will reflect outside. ·         Do not live a monotonous life. Be creative and do something new all the time. Nothing greater than the joy of creative satisfaction. Personality development is gaining more and importance because it enables people to create a good impression about themselves on others; it helps them to build and develop relationship, helps in your career growth and also helps to improve your financial needs. After all, personality development is nothing but a tool helps you realize your capabilities and your strength making you a strong, a happier and a cheerful person.

 

Write a blog in about 100 to 150 words on 'Health and Fitness'.

Compose HTML Publish Save Preview   Health and Fitness         Englishgrammarclass.com              Posting as Dr. Tukaram Salunkhe Being healthy and fit in simple terms means taking good care of the body. Fitness and mental well-being are essential parts of a healthy life. We should remember that a healthy mind resides only in a healthy body. Good health of both mind and body helps one maintain the required energy level to achieve success in life. All of us must strive to achieve wholesome health. Protecting your body from the intake of harmful substances, doing regular exercises, having proper food and sleep are some of the important instances that define a healthy lifestyle. Being fit allows us to perform our activities without being lethargic, restless or tired. A healthy and fit person is capable of living the life to the fullest, without any major medical or physical issues. Being healthy is not only related to the physical well-being of a person, it also involves the mental stability or the internal peace of a person. Generally, a healthy diet consists of taking a proper and healthy food which includes eating green and fresh vegetables, fruits, having milk, eggs, minerals proteins and vitamins essential for a human’s lifestyle. Practicing Yoga including regular exercises in your daily routine also help you maintain your desired fitness, blood sugar and immunity level. Healthy habits improve your physical appearance, mental stability, ability to perform activities in a better way, which help you lead a stress-free lifestyle, maintaining happy moods, high energy levels, etc. each individual should take of one’s health on a priority; no single day should be skipped for making efforts on maintaining physical and mental fitness. Being happy is directly related to boosting your mental strength and health, so happiness can be considered as the result as well as the part of a healthy and fit lifestyle. Things to be done maintaining balanced healthy and fit lifestyle: 1.        Drink ample water 2.        Wash hands before and after meals 3.        Do regular exercise 4.        Proper intake of nutrients 5.        Take regular sound sleep 6.        Develop good habits

 

                                                              Compiled By-Dr. Salunkhe T. B.

Book Review-Writing Skill

WRITING SKILL-BOOK REVIEW

How to write impressive book review?

What are the steps for writing a book review?

1. Introduce the book and discuss what it is about.

2. Choose a particular aspect of the book to discuss.

3. Evaluate the book.

4. Suggest any changes or improvements the author might make.

5. Conclude with your thoughts on the book.

You have recently read a book. Write a Book Review on the same with the help of the following points.

Book Review Format

• Title of the book
• Subject/Story/Information
• Language/Style/Presentation
• Benefits/Message

Book Review: Wings of Fire by Dr. Abdul Kalam and Arun Tiwari

Introduction:

Book Name: Wings of Fire

Author Name: A P J Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari

Genre: Autobiography

Language: English

 “Wings of Fire” An Autobiography of Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India. It was written by Dr. Abdul Kalam and Mr. Arun Tiwari, a well-known missile scientist was a colleague of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. Dr. Kalam examines his early life, effort, hardship, fortitude, luck, and the chance that eventually led him to lead Indian space research, nuclear and missile programs.

About the Author

“Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam” his full name, The author was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu. He served as the 11^th President of India from 2002 to 2007. 

Greatly admired all over India, he was a scientist by profession, who played a leading role in developing the country’s missile program. From humble roots in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu. Dr. Kalam in an inspirational autobiography ‘ The Wings of Fire’ traces the rise and the make he made his life.

Arun Tiwari rose to fame as an author with his book Wings of Fire, which he co-authored with Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam. He has written several books and co-authored five books with Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. He contributed to the design of the missiles. Tiwari has been the director at the Cardiovascular Technology Institute in Hyderabad. He received the  Defence Technology Spinoff Award for developing the Kalam-Raju stent.

About the Book:

This book contains the life of a simple yet determined person. There is so much knowledge and good things that everybody can extract from this book. Reading this book is a very heartwarming and beautiful experience.

This book contains a very detailed description of how great things can be achieved through simple thoughts. This book conveys the message of the authors that always keep your dream high, your goal clear, plan perfectly and do hard work.

The story is all about a warm and intensely personal, deeply passionate, common boat – owner’s son who has become India’s most distinguished living technocrat. The pure faith in God and deep kindness, dealing life with positivity, science, and technological advancements, love toward one country and many more things are mentioned in this book.

The book is full of insights, personal moments, and life experiences of Dr. APJ Kalam. It gives us an understanding of his journey of success.

This is a story of a boy who was born in a normal and middle-class family. He had a curiosity about aeronautical engineering. He faced so many failures during launching the satellite called SLV [Satellite Launching Vehicle] but he proved that anything can be achieved by keep trying because when you become a failure then you go one step closer to success.

The author, by narrating his life journey evokes the reader to identify with one’s inner fire and potential, for he was of the firm belief that each one of us was born with the strength and potential to make a tangible change in the world. How he inspired himself to achieve his dream and how he went about accomplished so much is what the book captures nicely.

The book recollects many anecdotes and stories from childhood, his time at school and college. He wrote the time spent at the Langley Research Center, NASA and Wallops Flight Facility gets a lot of attention.

Personal tragedies have not left been left out. The time when he lost his father and how he felt when conferred with many awards like the Padma Bhushan have been written in much detail.

The second half of the book deals with the author, the scientist who made a significant contribution in developing the country's guided missile program, a pioneering effort for the security of the nation.

My view

I hope this book is best suited for reading for teenagers and youths, to dream and to dare. It shows, how a person from a modest background ends up being the first citizen of a nation of one billion.

In this book, there is something that everybody can extract from and worthy of being read by every Indian. A very detailed description of how great things can be achieved through simple thoughts. Always keep your dream high, set your goals clear, plan perfectly and work through people. I will suggest never miss reading this great book if you haven’t yet.

Book review of 'Ek Hota Carver' by Veena Gavankar

Introduction:

Book Name: Ek Hota Carver

Author Name: Veena Gavankar

Genre: Debut novel and biography

Language: Marathi

About the Author

Former librarian and an avid reader, the author has written this book in 1979 and has followed up with numerous books.

About the Book

Recently I have read a book by Veena Gavankar. The book is in Marathi on the life of George Washington Carver. It is a biography of the great a researcher of 19th century. George was the son of Mary a negro slave. She was living with Mozes Carver's family as he has bought her. One day Mary and her son were taken away by some dacoits to resell the slaves as were the practice in those days. Mozes tried to get back them and he succeeded in getting back only Mary's son in exchange of a horse. Mozes and his wife Suazanbai brought up this child as their child. He developed his interest in gardening. He was very weak and dumb child.

He was sent to Neose for schooling. It was a school for Negroes. By doing some odd jobs, he completed his schooling. He developed interest in painting and music too. He was good at education and started to speak without staggering. He was neglected higher education at Highland University because he was black. He got admission in State Lowa College.

George got his MS degree in Agriculture and Bacterial Botany and become a professor of the same. Then he was invited in the school of Tuskegee. He accepted the invitation and joined the school. Here he joined hands with Dr. Washington Booker to serve his people. He did many researches there for the welfare of farmers nearby. George Carver invented peanut butter, paints and cotton product. He prepared laboratory instruments from the waste. He made researches in groundnut, sweet root, cotton. He discovered some eatables.

My view

The book is very interesting. The narrator creates mental picture of that period before us. The language used here is simple and appropriate to the period. While reading the book, we became the part of it. The author of this book Veeena Gavankar has used her unique style giving details. The book introduces us with great researcher. It teaches us the hard work sacrifice and gratitude. 

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