 7 Organisation Techniques in Writing to Improve Your Blog
Introduction
Developing ideas and effectively writing a blog post involves using well
paragraph titles, concise content, additional resource links, and employing
7 organisation techniques in writing. It is the 7 organisation techniques
which can improve greatly the readability of your blog. When your blog
is written well, it serves the purpose of giving the information needed
by readers online. Organisation in writing is meant for the ease of
reading and comprehension of your readers.
7 organisation techniques in writing
The 7 key organisation techniques in writing that can also improve blog
readability, are based on Rudolf Flesch and A. H. Lass book, "A New Guide
to Better Writing". We can translate the ideas they teach in this book
to writing Catholic blog posts. In organisation of your writing, remember
also to balance it with the important key words that identify your blog
in the search engines - key words like "catholic", "blog" and other
key phrases that make your blog unique and stand out from among the rest.
The seven organisation techniques that can be integrated with search
engine optimization of your blog are the following:
- give enough details to make the readers understand what the writing
is about
- use very graphic and picturesque descriptions
- follow the natural order in teaching a process
- develop your ideas so that the article will end with the strongest
idea
- give substantial reasons for writing an idea or topic
- include comparisons and contrasts to make your point clear
- use a good mix of all the above to suit what is needed to improve
blog readability
The importance of details
This organisation technique stresses the importance of providing enough
details for better blog readability. For example, if you are to give all
the elements in a HTML or PHP code, then you have to give extra care in providing
all the necessary details of the code, to make it work for your readers.
Or, if you are to give directions for a specific process (such as a spiritual
exercise), this involves outlining all the steps needed from beginning to end
- without missing any detail in each and every one of the step. You can
achieve this organisation in your writing if you sit down, list all the
details needed for the blog post, and organise them for a good flow and
logical order. Remember also to place the important key words or key
phrases that identify your blog in the search engines indeces.
Graphic and picturesque descriptions
Some bloggers integrate images in different file formats to amplify the
needed description of an idea. This is a very good blog readability
strategy, because it balances the full text given in the blog post.
However, you need not do this if you give some space for your reader
to stop, pause and reflect. For example, when you present a gospel
passage of a Sunday Mass for reflection purposes, then the description
can be in the form of rewording the text of the gospel to make the
description of the gospel scene more graphic in the imagination of the
reader. You can do this in a very concise manner, replacing gospel
words with more vivid descriptive words that help the reader reflect
more deeply. But if your want to integrate an image with the text
of your blog, you can do so in a way that does not distract the reader
from the main message of the blog's text. The purpose of the image is
only to supplement the message of the blog and make it more
comprehensible to readers.
The natural order of a process
Another organisation techinique in writing is to follow the natural order
of a specific process. As an example, if a Catholic blogger wants to
teach a method of prayer, such as the rosary, then he must follow the
natural order in which the rosary is recited from beginning to end.
For those who may know this prayer very well, they may forget some
details when writing about it in their blog. What is important is to
write it with an audience in mind who may not know of the process of
praying the rosary. This will make your blog serve a wider audience
- including other Christians or non-Catholics. For this organisation
of writing, you need to put more time to note down all the necessary
details, and write it from the point of view of one who is also a beginner
in the process. This will surely help beginners to get interested in
what you are writing and if they actually follow your process, they will
be pleased if they effective benefit from it.
From basic idea to strongest idea
The fourth organisation technique in writing is to outline first all
your ideas on paper. Then, when all the ideas are listed, you can organise
these ideas from the most basic to the strongest - finishing with the idea
that will give the greatest impact to the reader (one that will stick in
his mind longer or one that he will feel as important). This is easy, if
you take time to list out each idea, then number them so that each idea is
not only presented in strength of degree but also flow from one to the
other. Once the basic outline and flow is constructed, each idea can then
be present in a well-thought-out manner and gradually developed so that the
one that has the strongest point will be imprinted in the reader's mind. As
you present each individual idea, remember also to place in some of your
important key words and key phrases so that your blog post will rank high
in the search engine's results pages. If you can place those key words and
key phrases in each idea, making it part of building from the basic idea to
the idea with the strongest solution or desired result, then this would be
ideal.
Giving reasons to support your writing
So that you keep to your subject or idea, and not be led out of the topic,
one organisation technique in writing is to give substantial reasons to
support the main idea you are presenting. If, for example, you want to
present a blog post on the importance of attending religiously the Sunday
Eucharist, then you can outline good and wise reasons to support this truth.
If each reason that you provide is also supported by quotations from offical
documents of the Church (such as the new edition of the Catechism), then the
readers of the blog post can understand better the importance and value of the
topic through the given reasons. As always, it would be best to write with
an audience of other Christians and non-Catholics in mind. Writing in this
way, you can word and phrase your writing more tactfully, and you will always
be aware and careful to stress your writing with a tone of authority that
would turn off other Christians and non-Catholics. The ideal is to persuade
them to see the truth you wish to share.
Comparisons and contrasts
When an idea or topic involves some complexity, then you can help the readers
understand the topic better through comparisons and contrasts. An example
of a complicated topic is the mystery of the Blessed and Holy Trinity. To
describe and explain the Trinity to a non-Catholic, you can employ the
organisation technique of comparison to present this highly complex truth, and
at the same time, present it as an essential part of daily Christian living.
As an example, some modern Catholic writers would compare the Father-Son-Spirit
mystery with their personal attributes of Creator-Redeemer-Sanctifier. This type
of writing involves some creativity on the part of the Catholic blogger. As long
as you don't get off the track too much, and keep to the main theme of your
writing, then you can compare or contrast your main subject so that its meaning
becomes clearer to many. Also, so that the Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
factor of your blog is also improved, find key words and phrases to support
the comparisons and contrasts that you write in your blog post.
A good mix and balance of all the above
If you use enough details, describe well, follow a natural order, build
and develop the main idea well, give reasons to support it, and use
comparisons or contrasts to make your point clear, then you are already
employing a good mix and balance of organisation techniques in writing that
will best serve your readers. The success of your writing depends on how
you employ these organisation techniques, so that every part of your blog post
contributes to the greater whole. Your blog will be a piece of writing that
will present subjects and themes that are presented in highly readable form
and content. Also, if your budget can allow the purchase of a really good
book on effective writing, this article highly recommends the book by Rudolf
Flesch and A. H. Lass, entitled "A New Guide to Better Writing". This is
a classic and is applicable to all types of writing. All you need to do
is just translate it to the present method of writing on the Web.
Summary and conclusion
As we practice good writing more and more, and employ all the organisation
techniques in writing that are described in this article, it will be
like learning to ride a bicycle or learning how to swim. Once we have
learned the basics, then we will never forget to use them naturally
in all forms of writing - not only for Catholic blog posts - but in
all the writing that needs to be done - like an essay that needs to be
written as part of applying for a job or a report that you need to do
in your work and profession.
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