12) About the Writer: Writing Effective Writer Biographies
As discussed before, incorporating EAT helps enhance content quality and helps more people discover the developed content.
Apart from ensuring EAT within our content, we need to ensure that we have effective writer biographies that support the developed content.
In this discussion, we will understand how to ensure effective writer biographies through applying EAT and other best practices.
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Expertise
- When considering the expertise factor for author biographies, expertise refers to the credentials or experience the author has.
- Medical content is best supported/expertised through medical professionals, for example, and similarly, relevant experience or education qualifies as expertise.
- However, if one does not have a degree, expertise can be demonstrated through lived experience or other ways. For example, being an active listener for 7 Cups for 3 years does demonstrate expertise in listening and supporting mental health concerns.
Note: To keep up with the Expertise factor’s need, 7 Cups currently either pairs content writers with experts and content is published through the expert profile with the writer biography contained at the end of the co-authored article, or publishes writer works through a shared account called “7 Cups Community, Global Support” - the biography of this account is optimized to reflect EAT.
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Authoritativeness
- Authority in terms of an author biography refers to the number of citations the author has. This includes their publications and other published content, as well as any reviews or things that show the impact or quality of their work.
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Trust
- Trust is also determined by an author’s citations - trusted authors have published content for websites and publications that score high on EAT factors.
- Trust is also established through the quality of an author’s content.
Activity
Using the factors discussed above, write a biography for your prospective articles at 7 Cups. Feel welcome to include your real name/pseudonym or first name - anything you are comfortable with being prospectively published!
After you have written the brief paragraph-form biography, point out what parts of the biography highlight each of the EAT factors.
Respond to at least one other student’s biography and comment your feedback for improvement.
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“sillyLittleBook is a trained science feature writer and internationally competitive essayist, experienced in doing research on psychology and other topics. They are passionate about sharing lesser known mental health concepts and tools.
They have been a 7Cups listener for some time, and have collected multiple badges and training along the way.”
The first sentence includes Trust and the first and third include expertise, I think.
@sillyLittleBook
Great resume,
@sweetnutella
I love this detailed mention of the things you have achieved, it shows how credible you are. I would also love to see how you would put all those things together in a shorter version.
@SoulfullyAButterfly Eitas is a well-inform active member, student in 7Cups. I got 5/5 AP Psychology, finalist in Oxford Essay competition and is competing for getting a prize in the final round of John Locke Institute essay competition. My main focus is to develop counseling techniques and at the the same time enhances my experimental skills. Currently i am a speaker, a debater, a researcher as i devote my time and hone my skill and had achieved some psychology prize such as speaker at school district Psych talk, a paper that will be published at December.
In the near future, i will use my psychology expertise to listen and help member in 7Cups
@SoulfullyAButterflyChocolate has been listening in 7 Cups for over two years, interested in learning more about mental and psychological health and supporting others as friends or part of the extended family without judgment, and especially interested in supporting people who have suffered from wars and their woes as she has suffered from it personally, she has taken an online course from UNICEF(How to provide initial support to survivors of gender-based violence(GBV)) in order to contribute to supporting my community that has suffered from war.
Experience
Two years of listening to others has given her a lot of experience about mental and psychological health and developing listening skills and empathy with others.
Confidence
She has helped more than 600 people during her time on 7 Cups and more than 50 positive reviews from members.
@Chocolate0 really lovely bio, showing interest, reason, genuine empathy, a will to continue to learn and evolve and overall, a kindness comes through.
Critic would be, that you have shown the full EAT but you didn't list them outside of experience/expertise. However, you did list confidence, which I do think is a very important heading for a listener. If you are not building your confidence, how can you expect to help others to, so a really good feature.
@SoulfullyAButterfly
Chocolate has been listening in 7 Cups for over two years, interested in learning more about mental and psychological health and supporting others as friends or part of the extended family without judgment, and especially interested in supporting people who have suffered from wars and their woes as she has suffered from it personally, she has taken an online course from UNICEF(How to provide initial support to survivors of gender-based violence(GBV)) in order to contribute to supporting my community that has suffered from war.
Experience
Two years of listening to others has given her a lot of experience about mental and psychological health and developing listening skills and empathy with others.
Confidence
She has helped more than 600 people during her time on 7 Cups and more than 50 positive reviews from members.
@SoulfullyAButterfly
Using the factors discussed above, write a biography for your prospective articles at 7 Cups. Feel welcome to include your real name/pseudonym or first name - anything you are comfortable with being prospectively published!
After you have written the brief paragraph-form biography, point out what parts of the biography highlight each of the EAT factors.
Apoorva is a verified, trained active listener who began her journey in March 2020. She has been on 7 cups for over four years and her consistent five-star ratings reflect her quality chatting skills. Personally navigating her own challenges with Depression, OCD, GAD and PTSD, she began engaging with people dealing with mental health issues online through various social networking sites. Her motivation to join 7 cups stemmed from a desire to give back the support she received from kind strangers when she needed it.
Her published answers can be found in the 7 Cups community forums. She had also had an article published in a college magazine.
Her contributions have been recognized by the community as her forum posts have been upvoted more than a thousand times. She has also received the 'Sage badge' for receiving 25 likes on a single post because of quality content and the willingness to improve.
She's driven by a desire to make a positive impact in the world, no matter how small.
1. Expertise: Shown through the time spent on 7 Cups and the mention of the reviews received.
2. Authoritativeness: Mentioned the published content on 7 cups and an article published in a magazine.
3. Trust: Described the way community has trusted the content through the mention of a badge received and upvoted forum posts by the members of the community.
EventHorizons is a trained and verified Listener at 7 Cups, with multiple positive reviews, 5 star ratings, and completion of dozens of training courses — and more to follow. I have personal experience with many issues such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, C-PTSD, being a victim of a religious cult, and much more. Years of therapy, frequent reading and learning about mental health, the brain and body, and ensuring I understand myself and maintain self-awareness has helped me better support others. Lead by compassion, interest in the human mind, and the drive for perpetual learning and understanding, I have made it a lifelong journey to listen to others, improve skills, and share the experience of being human.
Expertise: personal experience with many problems, therapy
Authoritativeness: Ratings and reviews
Trust: not sure for this one
@SoulfullyAButterfly
@Cathylistens joined 7 cups as a member in early 2019 after a difficult few years which involved emotional abuse, big life changes and grief through both loss and death. Finding such a wonderful source of support and help, she decided to become a listener in the middle of 2019, in an effort to give back to the site which gave so much.
She has previously worked with children up to the age of 17 as a counselor in a drop in center which was run by a national organization in the 1990s, which has proven very helpful in her providing support to members on 7 cups over the last number of years.
She has a 5 star rating on this site, and while her number of persons helped seems low at 138, many of these chats are long term, repeat and/or ongoing.
She sees the positives in life and makes every effort to find the silver linings in the dark clouds.
E - life experience stated in paragraph 1
A - prior counselor experience
T - repeat member chats, showing trust built and connections made
@SoulfullyAButterfly
@brightOcean1599 is a trained verified listener on 7 Cups with a strong passion for mental health awareness. With experience working with young learners and volunteering in professional organizations, they bring empathy, compassion, and professionalism to support others. An avid learner, she always explores new topics and enjoys content creation, writing, and storytelling to create meaningful narratives that connect with people and inspire positive change in mental well-being.
E - Active listening, content creation, storytelling.
A - Trained and verified listener, experience helping young learners and non-profit organizations.
T - Empathy, compassion, and professionalism
