Effective use of markdowns; improving community writing skills.

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Introduction
I bring to all my reader's doorstep warm greetings from Ghana. Today, I share something that needs the attention of all steemians. It is basically for personal and collective growth. It will not only be helpful to every individual but also to the benefit of all communities that seek to bring much improvement in their writing skills. Here on steemit, the quality of your content can never be overlooked. It is one aspect of the blog that makes your content an outstanding one of course. I am hopeful that, this brings the changes to the skills of writing that some people hope to see.

The steemGhana community has been greatly improved over the past weeks. This has been influenced by the constant tutorials and content that others share to help enhance the writing skills of members. The most target group will possibly be the newbies or even members who have no or little knowledge about the use of markdowns in writing.

Markdowns usage
Markdowns are simply a markup language used in formatting text. It is certainly used to make reading much easier and better particularly on the internet. They simply follow a syntax that is required to ensure appropriate formatting that plain text on the internet needs. Steemit platform makes good use of markdowns for member's usage. There are a couple of markdowns that steemians have studied so well for their use. They are what makes some posts you see so astonishing.

Everyone is certainly compelled to insert markdowns into the various content they share on the steem blockchain to ensure the attention and views that their posts deserve. I am by this post going to give you a simple tutorial on making some of the markdowns needed to ensure or format your content to your preference. Markdowns help to put one post content into;
italics
bold
bold italics and several other formatting styles. And so you uniquely can design your post into a chosen or preferred markdown if you follow this tutorial carefully.

Applying Markdowns
On the steem editor of your personal blog, you may find some available markdowns that are needed to improve the quality of your work. For a beginner, l would always recommend for you to start with the basic formatting that is needed to handle some basic styles for your text. Among these could be italics, bold, center alignment, etc. All these are available for your use once you click n the markdown styling guide on your steem editor page.

One of the easiest ways of applying markdowns which is however the basis of my writeup today is the use of markdowns from a post. You can easily make using a formatting style that is identified on someone's post. For whichever post that comes across from someone which you find the post writing style so beautiful, simply do this simple text to see all the various techniques that the user used in formatting his/her post. This will review to your notice the available markdowns used in any identified post.

#1.

Simply click to open any identified post you wish to make use of the markdowns that were applied by the author to make your content the same or similar after going through them all.

#2.

Once the post is opened, locate the URL or address bar at the top of your browser which identifies the post link of the opened link. Click on the address link to highlight the address of the URL.

#3.

Kindly click to edit the address to make sure that, steemit.com is replaced to be steemd. That is to say, replace the it in steemit with d without touching all other parts of the text in the address bar.

#4.

At this moment, you can gently hit enter to reload the page to effect the change that has been made to the address of that page.

#5.

Finally, scroll to the new page that you have been provided with all the various markdowns that were used in the post you identified. You can now copy and paste every single markdown style to use directly or edit into yours for your formatting.

And so that's just about it. You are free to make use of the formatting of markdowns that you identified in someone's post by simply following the above tutorials. You certainly do not have to make time in reading more about a particular styling guide. Once a writing style is identified in someone's post, do these to get exposed to all the tricks used in inserting those markdowns to that effect. Thanks for passing through today. I hope this is helpful for all.