Helping Others Through Your Words and ExperienceWriting does many things, including allowing you to use the power or your own words andpersonal experience to help others to solve, deal with, or address a problem they are facing.Think back to when you have faced problems in your life, whether you were grieving the loss ofa friend or loved one, or whether you needed help with managing your time during your firstmonths as a college student, or you may have needed help with budgeting, for example, andhow it’s quite likely you turned to others for help. They may have shared their experience andoffered you suggestions for how to cope in these situations. You may have even turned to thewriting of others, a self-help book, or a blog post written by someone going through the problemand sharing solutions.Here, for example is a list of blog posts where writers use their experience to help others:5two Education Blogs You Should FollowThe Cool Cat TeacherRandom Acts of LeadershipLeadership and Learning50 Must-Read IT Blogs from BizTechIron Firemen15 Nurse Blogs to FollowSocial Psychology NetworkNow it’s your turn to be the person others turn to for help, the person whose words, in this caseyour written words, console, help, and guide.Assignment InstructionsIn Unit 2, you examined some well-written business reports, academic journal articles, and blogposts. For your Unit 4 Assignment, you will practice applying what you learned about writingeffectively to craft your own 3-4 paragraph, personal expression blog post aimed at helpingothers to address a problem.As you probably know, a blog or web log is a generally informal online journal written by eitherindividuals or groups. As Caroline Forsey notes, blogs can provide individuals a powerful (andoften very profitable) platform for sharing knowledge, while also providing companies with avaluable venue for sharing information:What Is a Blog, & Why Should You Create OneYou won’t need to worry about building a website or creating the actual physical blog site itselffor this assignment. Instead, you will be writing the text you would share with your audience onyour specific blog post, if you were to create one.The post you create should be written to an audience of nonprofessionals (for example, workingmothers going back to school) to help them deal with a specific problem that you haveexperience with and have yourself learned to solve, deal with or address. Write to this audienceto share your experience, connect with them, and offer them guidance. Demonstrate to themone specific way of solving the problem, based on your own successful experience with thisproblem.Because you want to continue to learn about and explore issues relevant to your field of study,be sure that the problem that you address is in some way connected to your field of study. If youare studying psychology, think of your experiences with grief, anxiety, or any other experiencewhere your psychological well-being was affected. You could write to a group of other workingparents who are struggling with helping their teenager to fit in or who may be dealing withbullying or depression, if you too have had experience with this issue. If you are studyingaccounting, you could write to other single mothers out there struggling with their budget, if thatis an issue you have dealt with and that you have learned to manage.Remember, use the writing process itself to help you to brainstorm a possible topic, identify yourtarget audience and main point about the topic, to organize your thoughts and draft them, thento revise ideas after receiving feedback from others, followed by editing and proofreading. Wewill work through each of these steps, both in seminar and the Unit 3 and 4 Discussion Board, toensure that you are successful at every step of the process. Here are the steps you will take toensure success in this assignment:You may use one source, briefly, and only to establish the relevance of the problem, forexample. Your suggestion, solution, or way of dealing with this problem must come from yourown experience. If you summarize or use the exact words of a source, you must credit thatsource with an in-text citation and a References page citation.STEPS TO CREATING YOUR BLOG POST:1. Unit 3 Discussion Board and Seminar: Brainstorming and selecting a topic; identifyingyour audience, main point and purpose and creating a plan.2. Unit 4 Discussion Board: Implementing your writing plan and writing a rough draft; givingand receiving feedback; creating a plan for revision and editing.