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    1) Blogs are online discussion or informational journals that are frequently updated and allow anyone to contribute by posting entries or commenting. 2) The purpose of a blog entry is to express one's own opinions or thoughts on a topic, news article, book, film, or TV show. 3) Blog entries should be written for a specific audience, be informative and clear, and contain complete thoughts structured in paragraphs with topic sentences.

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    Text Type: Blog (Entry) : Blogs

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    1) Blogs are online discussion or informational journals that are frequently updated and allow anyone to contribute by posting entries or commenting. 2) The purpose of a blog entry is to express one's own opinions or thoughts on a topic, news article, book, film, or TV show. 3) Blog entries should be written for a specific audience, be informative and clear, and contain complete thoughts structured in paragraphs with topic sentences.

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    English B for the IB Diploma Programme.

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    1) Blogs are online discussion or informational journals that are frequently updated and allow anyone to contribute by posting entries or commenting. 2) The purpose of a blog entry is to express one's own opinions or thoughts on a topic, news article, book, film, or TV show. 3) Blog entries should be written for a specific audience, be informative and clear, and contain complete thoughts structured in paragraphs with topic sentences.

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    Text Type: Blog (Entry) : Blogs

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    Ailén N.
    1) Blogs are online discussion or informational journals that are frequently updated and allow anyone to contribute by posting entries or commenting. 2) The purpose of a blog entry is to express one's own opinions or thoughts on a topic, news article, book, film, or TV show. 3) Blog entries should be written for a specific audience, be informative and clear, and contain complete thoughts structured in paragraphs with topic sentences.

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    Text type: Blog (entry): blogs are mainly discussion or informational journals published on the World

    Wide Web; they are updated frequently and everybody can contribute to them by posting an entry,
    commenting on previous entries, …

    Function: to express one’s own opinion/thoughts on a topic, a newspaper article, a book, film, TV
    show, …
    STRUCTURE LANGUAGE TO BE AVOIDED

    Depends largely on the input text and The aim is to write a clear and Do not
    the task; comprehensible text which is • be rude or
    but the text should interesting and conversational offensive
    • be written with a specific audience Dos: • use swear words
    in mind • Use first and second person • post texts which
    • be informative and clear in pronouns (“I, you”) to make the are unkind or
    language and content entry personal uncomplimentary;
    • contain complete thoughts which • Use conjunctions to improve the be especially
    the reader can follow easily flow of statements and make careful with topics
    • be structured and divided into reading more interesting like sex, age, race,
    clear paragraphs with a topic religion, nationality
    sentence in each paragraph • Use vivid words, expressions,
    modifiers (and images) • use jargon or
    • begin with the most important
    thought or idea the blogger wants Register: varies depending on confusing
    to present his audience the input text and the task ; abbreviations
    • capture and maintain the readers’ frequently informal/colloquial • bend grammar
    interest and attention throughout and/or punctuation
    the entry rules so that the
    • end with a conclusion that invites entry is insulting or
    further comments or reactions hard to follow
    from other bloggers • switch tenses
    without good
    reason
    • overload the text
    with complex
    structures; clauses
    involving
    participles with
    their own subject1
    and non-defining
    relative clauses,
    for example should
    be used sparingly
    • waffle
    • copy from the input
    text or include
    lengthy and
    unnecessary
    quotes (plagiarise)

    1
    e.g. “The weather being rather wet, we decided to stay at home.” It might be better to write “We
    decided to stay at home because the weather was wet.”

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