Do you know who you are? You are a blogger if you are posting regularly on Steemit (Steempeak, Steemleo, Partiko or any other frontend). Blogging is a relatively new science or profession. You can do it as a hobby, but you can make it better if you know its rules and secrets. I’m sure. We see so many bad posts on Steemit, let’s lift the mean, let’s improve our writing skills!
You don’t have to pay for an expensive writing course. You can use some free tools and learn a lot from them. Let’s go to the point.
I made a little experiment: I chose six different, aleatory – but relatively good – posts on Steemit, curated by Project Hope. I put them in the Grammarly grammar checking system. The result was: no one of the authors used the system. Because there were a lot of errors detected. The worst post got only 50 percent. That means, 50 percent of the users of Grammarly made fewer errors than this one. The best post had 84 percent. (All results: 84, 82, 50, 79, 71, 78.)
I think some people aren’t even using spellchecking in their word processing software. Others aren’t using the benefits of Grammarly and similar services (another example: LanguageTool). I use Grammarly for about a year or so. Sure, it is no wonder potion. Ultimately, I have an initial score of 75-85, approximately, which I can elevate to 90-95 with this program. That makes a clear difference.
Grammarly and LanguageTool exist also as browser extensions. That can correct the errors we would make by commenting posts, or responding to e-mails, using other forms, input windows.
Update: I forgot to mention that LanguageTool works in different languages, not only English.
Commenting with LanguageTool browser add-on. (On Steempeak.com)
Grammar is one issue, readability is the other. I get sick if I see a long post with pure text, no subheadings, no pictures, no other visual elements of it. Subheadings have also the benefit to inform the reader what is you are writing about. Some busy people don’t read the posts but read headings, summaries, conclusions.
In English, headings have their own case rules, also the subheadings. Main words begin with upper case, but some words, don’t. See Titlecase tool to learn it.
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(Picture: Pixabay)
