Video recordings of ‘The Bloggers Zone’ training programme

The News Today (TNT), under its Citizens’ Journalism Initiative, conducted a series of webinars on blog writing. The training programme tagged “The Bloggers’ Zone” covered the following content:

1. What are blogs?
2. How can blogs be composed?
3. What are the types of writing styles?
4. How to make your blogs engaging?

Bloggers’ Zone Session 1- Introduction to Blog writing

The first session covered:

• Introduction to the course.
• Introduction to blog writing
• Smart tips for searching genres and trending topics.
• Pre-planning techniques.
• Sketching outline.

Following is the link to the short video recorded for you:

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Xek2FjPho

Bloggers’ Zone Session 2- Establishment of Hooks

The second session covered:

• What are the hooks?
• Variety of hooks along with the examples

1. Literary Quotes
2. People
3. Anecdotes
4. Pose a question
5. Set a scene
6. Include an interesting fact or definition
7. Reveal a misconception
8. Statistics

Following is the link to the short video recorded for you:

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l2bFwB1vkA

Bloggers’ Zone Session 3- Persuasive Writing

The third session covered:

• What is persuasion or persuasive writing?
• What are the modes of persuasion?
• How can modes of persuasion be incorporated while writing?
• Examples of Ethos, Logos & Pathos.

Following is the link to the short video recorded for you:

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xwbm2wyi9M

Bloggers’ Zone Session 4- Storytelling or Narrative Writing

The fourth session covered:

• What is storytelling?
• What are the basic elements of story writing?

1. Plot
2. Characters
3. Setting
4. Theme
5. Point of view
6. Tone

• Examples & explanation.

Following is the link to the short video recording for you:

Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywhs3KwsI3E

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To know more about citizens journalism initiative of TNT please open the link:TNT’s Citizen Journalism Initiative for Students and Amateur Writers