How to Write a Good Article

I’ve spent several days on different articles, reading what readers like to listen to, what they like to read to. And now, I’m sure I have enough knowledge to make a guide about it. It’ll certainly be worth your while.

I’ll show you in detail on how to write an article that people would read, like and comment on. Heres a list of what’s important when writing an article.

• Information.
• Grammar, spelling and punctuations.
• Clarity and simplicy.
• What readers want to read.
• What to say, how to put it.
• Flow of words.
• One point, one paragraph.
• First Impression.

Information. If you’re writing a article regarding a specific guitar/event, make sure you’ve researched and studied your subject matter. People don’t want to read incorrect facts about Obama. Firstly, carefully research and study your subject matter. If you don’t know anything about your subject, or fail to find any information about it, it’s beat you stay away from it, try something you have great knowledge and detail about.

Summary: Carefully research and study your subject matter, never give false information.

Think about what you want to say, and how you want to put it, carefully plan what you want to say, so that people would understand. Pictures explain things in detail better than a block of text, in some cases. Instead of going through trouble trying to explain how the real life stock market works, try posting diagrams.

Example:

Text: In real life stock markets, when an item in low in demand, it’s price drops; however, if it’s in high demand, the price increases. When a supply is decreased, the price rises; when supply is increased, the price drops.

Diagrams:

See the difference? Thats two diagrams compared with 250 letters.

Summary: Think about what you want to say, and how you want to put it. Diagrams explain better than blocks of text. (In some cases)

Grammar,  spelling and punctuations. Grammar and spelling can be very important for readers when reading your topics. Noone wants to read a sentence and 10 seconds, and spend 10 minutes figuring what that sentence meant. Also, excessive punctuations is not needed, don’t ever put “!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” in the end of your sentence, it looks very messy, unofficial and immature at times. I suggest getting Monzilla Firefox, as it has a built in spelling checker. You can download Monzilla Firefox at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html.

Summary: Grammar, punctuations and spelling is very important.

Clarity and simplicy is what you should always aim when writing an article/guide. Don’t try to be a smart-alec by typing in complicated and sophisticated words. Try to keep it as short and simple as possible. Ensure that your article reads quickly and easily, long articles might result bored readers, and they might go on with others. I’d rather read a 1000 worded article that explains it well, rather than a 5000 worded article of waffle that doesn’t say much at all. 

Summary: Quality > Quantity.

Think yourself in the position of the reader. If you’re writing an article ‘Teenage Depression’. What would you like to read? What would you want to know about it? Always ask yourselves these questions, try not to add rubbish that noone wants to read about.

After reading your article, try re-reading it a couple of times, to correct sentences where people might find hard to make sense of. Try bolding the important points and check for spelling/punctuation mistakes. After that, you can polish it up by changing words and expressions, make it more interesting, it attracts more people. It’s definately worth it.

Summary: Always reread your articles after completion.

Study your sentences and paragraphs, ensure the words and sense flow smoothly. For example, if you’re wrtiting an article about WWII, don’t jump from modern warfare back to WWII and back to modern warfare. It confuses the readers.

Summary: Smooth story always arouses readers.

One point, one paragraph, remember this. Noone wants to read a biography of someone all in one paragraph, try spltting them up. One big wall of text can look very messy and tedious to read.

Summary: One point, one paragraph.

First impressions. The vital key to an article is the first few words of it. Normally people want to go straight to the point, not long, chessy introductions. Try typing in on some detail on how or where you got your information, how long you’ve spent researching, then only readers will understand how reliable your article might be.

Summary: Keep your first few words interesting, arouse the readers, entice them.

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Thanks.