Influential Blogging by Our Role Models

The idea of blogging is trying to find a way intrigue our readers by how and what we write. Blogging is a way of expressing on how you feel about a particular topic you have read or experienced. Just like anything you are writing about, you want to make sure that everything is in your own words and if you do use outside sources, make sure to credit them. When writing to your audience, you would also consider using vocabulary that they will understand. For me, if I read a blog about medicine and used vocabulary that I did not understand, it does not interest me because I believe in the idea of blogs is to be able to complicate your arguments from a rhetorical aspect rather than just using big words that people may not understand.

            People that blog have their own personal style of writing. Some bloggers like to make arguments and use legitimate sources to support their reasoning while others reflect on discoveries they have approached when reading other blogs.  Since I am new with blogging, I wanted to explore other blogs just to see how writing styles can vary based upon the subject of matter, how much knowledge they have about the subject, and if their ideas complicate their readers. Sometimes, with some blogs, they are too boring. If you are interested in getting in the path of the medical field, a lot of blogs that I have found seem to be bland. There was an article that I have found called “How A Protein Rich Diet Can Help Prevent Pre-Eclampsia in Pregnancy ”. This article was interesting to read, but I thought there could have been better ways to write it. Ideally, when someone looks up a certain medical condition, they usually want to know what the condition is, how is it caused, possibly have some statistics, and treatment. This is what the author of this article did but for me, I feel that it did not do its job as a blog. For someone who is not so use to some medical terms, it might be a useless blog.  I did not know what the medical condition was at first, but then I decided to look up the condition. Pre- Eclampsia is a medical condition 20 weeks of pregnancy in a woman that have high blood pressure and excessive amount protein in their urine[i].  The idea of writing blogs is not making it informational.

           

            I have decided to explore more blogs and compare it to the first one I found. This blog I encountered was considered to be a “naturopathic blog” but when I read it, I did not see how it related to medicine or the idea of naturopath.  “First Person to Make Me Cry “ was a blog written by Krystal Plonski. This blog was a more personal blog but I did not find it to be a professional blog. She had a good moral to her “story” but it was too general with what has happened with her experience. As a person who is supposedly in the field of naturopathic medicine, I would have thought she would have talked about her experiences with using alternative medicines or that her story would have been about a bad experience with a patient who reacted to a medicine. Comparing this blog to the first blog that I have found, I felt that this blog was more personal but did not meet with what I think a blog should be.

            As I continued to search for more blogs, I finally found a blog that would help benefit me with how I should bring in my audience. All blogs should have a purpose of trying to interest your reader by what you write. How to Get Better Sleep and Treat Insomnia is a blog that explains ways of treating people who have trouble sleeping. This blog is not necessarily relatable with this author’s personal experience, but it is relatable to people whom not just only have problems with sleeping but also treating themselves without using prescribed medicine.  These author first talks about the benefits of sleep, then what are the causes of restlessness of sleep, and lastly ways of trying to get better night of rest. This blog is not too simple with words or complicated, which makes it easier to understand. I like how this blog has bullet points of the explanations and causes of not getting the sleep you need.  This blog was very relatable to me because I have a problem with sleeping and trying to make sure I have plenty of rest, and like this article mentions, a lot of it has to do with stress.

           

            There were many more blogs that I have encountered, but I chose these three articles in particular because I thought that these bloggers had different styles of blogging. From the bland and simple blogging to a sophisticated but relatable writing, we all have different tastes of how blogs draw us to be interested in their taste of interest.

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[i] Definition of Pre-Clampsia by Mayo Clinic  

Get a Career from Blogging!

It is fascinating how technologically dependent our world has become. Technology plays a role to getting a career because many businesses use the Internet to interact and research with other companies. Blogging is a great way to connect with other who has similar interests and ideas. People who have similar interests and ideas build a community where they have a safe place of sharing their opinions and being able to analyze and complicate a blogger’s writing in a professional way. Blogging is an essential way of letting people express and rewording the text in a rhetorical perspective. People that are not familiar with blogging may mistake it as an online journal. This YouTube video illustrates the ideas of why blogs are not considered as journals. 

            People that are not familiar with the rules of blogging may mistake blogging as just ways of reiterating something a blogger just read. One idea to take away from blogging is to compare ideas the blogger has taken away from what they have written about and then comment on their blog by complicating what the blogger had wrote. Thoughts of blogging supports the idea of how blogs have misconceptions about how people do not use blogs in a professional manner, meaning that the usual people replying back to their blog posts are initially just people friends with the blogger. Ideally, the main ideas this author of this blog points out is the idea of what standards should be met when writing a blog.

Blogging is a way opening doors to new opportunities based on the field a person is studying. For me, blogging would be a great way of connecting with bloggers who have similar interests with medicine and what people outside of the medicine community think about certain ideas. A lot of times, we hear the word community when it comes to blogs. The great thing about blogging is that we can create or join a community based upon personal interest. Bloggers are able to share and relate their ideas to each other.  With me, this would be a great way of exploring the world of medicine because many doctors and researchers blog about finding new methods to improve people’s lives. it is fascinating to know that we are in touch with bloggers around the world. We, as bloggers, are able to create a guide to in order to have a successful blogging career. It is not just great for people in the medical field (although I think it is very beneficial), but it great for people who want to go into the field of business, marketing, fashion, or even art. 

As a first time blogger, blogging was a difficult thing to grasp. It is hard to tell where bloggers get their sources. Since the Internet is so easily accessible, people who are new at blogging are prone to plagiarize their work. Believe it or not, plagiarism is a big deal in the cyber world. It is not the idea of just copying and pasting other people’s work, but it is the fact of having to give credit to the person who originally wrote it. It seems to be a bigger issue in international places, such as Turkey and Russia.

        The idea of blogging is very essential to the cyber world. Since our world is always changing, technology is used to help us think about how we think more deeply on certain topics. From when I was a little kid, I am sure research has changed. Blogging has helped evolved peoples thoughts into conversational engagements. Consistency is the key in order to be better bloggers and better at expanding on how we write and what we write about.

*all hyperlinked words are links to the sources I have used to write this blog.

Not A Foe But A Friend.

Everyone struggles to figure out with what they want to do as a career and have different ways of achieving it. For some, it is simple to see where they want to go, but for others, it is a struggle. I lay right in between the two paths because I know what to do as a career, but at the same time, I am still figuring out how get to where I want to be without skipping any essential steps to getting there. As of right now, I am attending San Francisco State University trying to obtain a B.S. Degree in Biology with a concentration of Physiology with a minor in Human Sexualities. What I plan to do after I get my B.S. Degree is to take a year off school and reflect on what is the next step after college life. When I do figure out the next steps, I plan to apply to UCSF, UC Davis, or Touro University in order to pursue my career as a naturopathic doctor. Another name for a Naturopathic doctor is a Holistic Doctor. These doctors use alternative methods, such as natural herbs or nutrition, to enable people to become whole within themselves. This link explains more about what a holistic doctor is and more details about naturopath: http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/naturopathy-000356.htm .

The reason why I am thinking about this path is because I have seen many of my family members get prescribed medicine that makes them feel weaker physically and mentally, and I feel that the doctors they are seeing are in the medical field for the wrong reasons. I want to be that doctor who has an influence in their life and makes sure that to not just be a doctor but someone they can always rely on and trust. Sort of like what we think of a friend. If being a doctor does not work out, I have two alternative careers that will still let me have a career in the medical field. One alternative would be involved in research about whether or not vaccinations and autism correlate with each other. A majority of my life, I have helped my mother raise my older brother. My mom strongly believes that the cause of his autism was from vaccine shots he got when he was about 18 months; helping my mother find the answer to why my brother has autism and whether his autism was caused by the vaccine or if it was just a coincidence. If you would like to read more about if vaccines cause autism, this link is about how vaccines do not cause autism: http://www.autismsciencefoundation.org/autismandvaccines.html while this link is about how vaccines may cause autism: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/11/vaccines-autism-controversy-why_n_1586898.html .

 Lastly, my last alternative would be becoming a physical therapist or anything to do with helping athletes. I was a former track athlete and the number 1 singles tennis player during my high school days, and I actually tore my lateral meniscus and suffered having shin splints. I went to physical therapy clinics for my meniscus since I had to get arthroscopic knee surgery. Whenever I was required to go to the physical therapy clinic, I never felt that it benefited me, and if I were to ever become a physical therapist, my goal is to make sure I help athletes like I was, get stronger so they are able to play their sport.

For me, I never had really anyone to trust with my medical needs; and my main goal for when I do pursue a career in the medical field is to help people and make sure they know that their life is in the right hands. Whether you see me in a hospital, in a research lab, or out on the field, in a physical therapy building, you will definitely see me help one person at a time; and that person someday, might be you.