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Monday 3 June 2013

Quick Article Writing Tips To Keep Writers Started By

By James Spann


You can find article writing tips for freelance or employed writers in a variety of places, but some may take time to fully incorporate into your style. Broadening your vocabulary is always a great thing, however it can take some time to take advantage of, too. But regardless of whether you are just getting going or are a veteran looking for a few new tricks, here are a few you might find immediately useful.

Choose Well Whenever You Are Able

Provided you can choose what it is you work on, try to capitalize upon the chance to do so. If you happen to have direct personal experience with your topic or find it interesting then you may invest yourself more in the writing. Often inspiration can come by learning more about something you enjoy, and that can show through in a number of ways.

This might lead to your writing too much, however, as some pieces can only allow for so many words. You can try paring things down, however, in a couple ways. Make sure you are using conjunctions everywhere you can, and also try to avoid using excessive adjectives that do more than they really need to when it comes to getting your point across.

Watch out For Hyperbole and Absolutes

This leads to another point, which is that you should work to avoid things like hyperbole or extreme language. Consider an article that describes a specific gardening tool as being entirely useless. This might be true within your article's context, but probably not within all contexts. Therefore keep to the boundaries of your work and simply state that the tool in question might be passed over for now.

Remember, too, that you should try to avoid confusing readers with too much technical jargon. Always adhere to the requirements set forth by a client or employer, but generally you will want to avoid too much information which non-professional audiences will have a hard time following. Your articles should aim for accessibility in most cases in order to more easily reach readers.

In the event that you are told specifically to write for a professional audience, however, there is a different challenge. Make yourself something of an expert within the limited scope of your piece. Accuracy suggests how knowledgeable - and therefore how qualified to write - about a topic.

Bring The Ideas Together Again

With any luck these article writing tips will have your work shaping up better. Keep in mind that you should still aim to incorporate more long-term techniques for improvement as well. Ever detail can count when it comes to the effective use of language.




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