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.
Bonus (Optional): Consider starting a 7 Cups creator portfolio here!
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pikaTangerine1 has spent over two decades helping others through volunteering. As a listener at 7 Cups, she has supported many people, offering comfort and building meaningful connections. She has worked with local NGOs on important projects, including the Rosia Montana movement, and contributed to environmental efforts with Greenpeace. She also played a role in spreading ideas by publishing projects on YouTube that helped TED Talks reach more people. Her journey as a volunteer is a testament to the power of empathy, activism, and the belief that every act of kindness can make a difference in the world.
Expertise: two decades of volunteering
Authoritativeness: published projects on youtube
Trust: supported many people, building meaningful connections
@pikaTangerine1
Oh wow that is interesting to hear, and I love how you flowed through this biography and mentioned some good highlights. I appreciate how you mentioned the E.A.T at the end to show the points you provided thank you for sharing this with us!
Thank you! 🙏
Insightful has been a dedicated individual to assisting and helping others ever since she was a child. She first started volunteering when she would go to the retirement home down the block from her grandparent's apartment to aid those without family visits or those who were struggling to remember their own families. Insightful always knew from that moment that supporting others with compassion, empathy and kindness was her calling. She then set forward in wanting to be an advocate for those that were unseen, and left out from the societal normalcy.
Insightful not only been recognized for her intelligence, but also for her everlasting wisdom, determination and faith in things always work out in the end. She is now a proud member of 7cups, in various roles continuing her pathway and pursuits to a better tomorrow. She also owns a mental health group offsite, and has does lead other groups as well. By continuing this beautiful and loving pathway, she is changing the treads of her family's history and breaking generational traumas day by day. If you know Insightful, she is the person that is the listening ear to all, and the healer that most pushed away. She paved diamonds out of the dirt that others have thrown her way, and she will continue to embark on the journey of change and prosperity for as long as she breathes.
I used E by mentioning that I was volunteering at a young age at a retirement home, showing that I understand what it is like to dedicate service with out expecting anything in return.
I used A by showing and flowing with the way I have been recognized for my intelligence more than once in my life.
I used T by allowing the flow of the passage to take it's course and show the readers that I am adaptable and smart, as well as I can hold my own.