LETS GET ONTO THIS... RESEARCH BLOGS

RESEARCH BLOGS: in weeks 3-6 we will be working on a group blog that documents our research into our investigative web feature. We will be marked individually on our blog posts.

Due date: Our blog posts are due in week 6 Friday 7^th September at 5pm. 

Each person will write 600 words in several posts detailing our thoughts on:

-     what our feature will be about

-     who will use it, and what content those users are interested in

-     what features inspire us

-     how our feature will be different to existing features on the same or similar topics

-     what design or layout ideas we like in other features

-     what types of content we might like to include

-     tools and services that we might like to build our feature

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                                            What we will be marked on... (important !!!)

• • • - the relevance and creativity of your ideas

•                                 - our depth of understanding of our target users

•                                 - the accuracy and depth of our research.

•                                 - use of the medium
 

A good research blog post tells our team members and our editor:

1. something timely, relevant, novel, and otherwise newsworthy about the topic
2. shares links to interesting and relevant evidence, explanatory or illustrative materials
3. shows we’ve been browsing what’s already published and thinking about how to connect with your target users
4. shows use of appropriate writing techniques (short sentences, embedded links, author profile etc)
5. shows effective use of images, video, audio etc