Immediately after I started to read it, I was attracted by the way the author writes.
"The giant panda became a symbol of conservation when Sir Peter Scott designed the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) original logo after the panda."
As you see, he does not start with the situation of pandas but talks about logo of WWF. Then, the author goes…
"Sir Peter Scott was wise to select the panda for WWF’s logo. Not only are pandas the quintessential flagship species, but pandas are also fascinating creatures—both in appearance and in habit."
The author did not say “Sir Peter Scott selected panda as a logo, because…” His way is much more attractive and I thought his writing keeps our attention very well.
Another great thing about this author’s post is the pictures.
Usually, we see pictures in between the sentences, but in this post, he put them on the right side so we can see the pictures and read at the same time. It continues almost all the way to the end of this article, and we can spontaneously feel that “we are reading about this cute panda”. I think it makes much difference, because if we do not see pictures while we are reading, we will not have sympathy as much as when we see the pictures.
For example, let’s assume that we are reading an article about child abuse. All you see is bunch of letters. Then, imagine if you read the same article with these pictures.
Don’t we feel much more of anger toward the criminal?
We have so many kinds of people in the world––
People who love to read VS People who hate to read
People who love science VS People who hate schience
People who can read English fast VS People who read English slowly
To create a good blog, we want to get attention from as many kinds of people as we can. All the people’s attention makes a blog popular and famous. Then, we have to set our level to the lowest. Spicy food eaters can eat mild taste curry but mild taste food eaters cannot eat hot curry. Same thing can be said for blog. We should make our expression as easiest as possible for everybody’s understanding. Changing font, color, or boldness might make reading easier for the people who do not like to read long posts. These kinds of effort have been done in this blog post “CONSERVATION: Endangered Pandas”.
Very nice analysis and use of attention getting elements in your own post. I found myself easily making it through your post. Being drawn in and not realizing that you have reached the end is a great sign that you have written a good post. With so much blog material out there you really need a hook to draw readers in and then keep them interested. Well done.
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