Helping Others Through Your Words and Experience
Helping Others Through Your Words and Experience
Writing does many things, including allowing you to use the power or your own words and
personal experience to help others to solve, deal with, or address a problem they are facing.
Think back to when you have faced problems in your life, whether you were grieving the loss of
a friend or loved one, or whether you needed help with managing your time during your first
months as a college student, or you may have needed help with budgeting, for example, and
how it’s quite likely you turned to others for help. They may have shared their experience and
offered you suggestions for how to cope in these situations. You may have even turned to the
writing of others, a self-help book, or a blog post written by someone going through the problem
and sharing solutions.
Here, for example is a list of blog posts where writers use their experience to help others:
5two Education Blogs You Should Follow
The Cool Cat Teacher
Random Acts of Leadership
Leadership and Learning
50 Must-Read IT Blogs from BizTech
Iron Firemen
15 Nurse Blogs to Follow
Social Psychology Network
Now it’s your turn to be the person others turn to for help, the person whose words, in this case
your written words, console, help, and guide.
Assignment Instructions
In Unit 2, you examined some well-written business reports, academic journal articles, and blog
posts. For your Unit 4 Assignment, you will practice applying what you learned about writing
effectively to craft your own 3-4 paragraph, personal expression blog post aimed at helping
others to address a problem.
As you probably know, a blog or web log is a generally informal online journal written by either
individuals or groups. As Caroline Forsey notes, blogs can provide individuals a powerful (and
often very profitable) platform for sharing knowledge, while also providing companies with a
valuable venue for sharing information:
What Is a Blog, & Why Should You Create One
You won’t need to worry about building a website or creating the actual physical blog site itself
for this assignment. Instead, you will be writing the text you would share with your audience on
your specific blog post, if you were to create one.
The post you create should be written to an audience of nonprofessionals (for example, working
mothers going back to school) to help them deal with a specific problem that you have
experience with and have yourself learned to solve, deal with or address. Write to this audience
to share your experience, connect with them, and offer them guidance. Demonstrate to them
one specific way of solving the problem, based on your own successful experience with this
problem.
Because you want to continue to learn about and explore issues relevant to your field of study,
be sure that the problem that you address is in some way connected to your field of study. If you
are studying psychology, think of your experiences with grief, anxiety, or any other experience
where your psychological well-being was affected. You could write to a group of other working
parents who are struggling with helping their teenager to fit in or who may be dealing with
bullying or depression, if you too have had experience with this issue. If you are studying
accounting, you could write to other single mothers out there struggling with their budget, if that
is an issue you have dealt with and that you have learned to manage.
Remember, use the writing process itself to help you to brainstorm a possible topic, identify your
target audience and main point about the topic, to organize your thoughts and draft them, then
to revise ideas after receiving feedback from others, followed by editing and proofreading. We
will work through each of these steps, both in seminar and the Unit 3 and 4 Discussion Board, to
ensure that you are successful at every step of the process. Here are the steps you will take to
ensure success in this assignment:
You may use one source, briefly, and only to establish the relevance of the problem, for
example. Your suggestion, solution, or way of dealing with this problem must come from your
own experience. If you summarize or use the exact words of a source, you must credit that
source with an in-text citation and a References page citation.
STEPS TO CREATING YOUR BLOG POST:
1. Unit 3 Discussion Board and Seminar: Brainstorming and selecting a topic; identifying
your audience, main point and purpose and creating a plan.
2. Unit 4 Discussion Board: Implementing your writing plan and writing a rough draft; giving
and receiving feedback; creating a plan for revision and editing.
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