Writing Tips For Authors. How-To Writing For The Web.Article Writing: How Do You Write For Quality?
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Steve Dempster has seen the short cuts authors use to crank out articles quickly. I too see these short cuts on a daily basis and they just don't work in the long run. This article is good advice for new authors and pros alike.
By: Steve Dempster
Article directories receive hundreds of articles daily - but why do some articles perform better than others? In this article we examine some of the reasons.
Article writing, for a competent writer, is a fairly easy discipline. The task is to write an informative and interesting piece of work in the range of some 400-1200 words. Yet many articles that I, as an article directory editor, have seen are just not up to the mark. Why is that? Let's leave aside for the moment the ones that are grammatically poor or have been obviously assembled by cherry-picking several sources of information.
The function of an article written with the express intent of being reproduced throughout the internet on blogs, ezines and the like is to sell a product - indirectly. It should be written in such a fashion that the reader's interest is piqued and then held until the article's conclusion, resulting in a level of interest that stimulates the reader to click through to the author's site, link or whatever.
Poor articles do not achieve this goal for a variety of reasons and most of these can be summarised by the following points: ...
Article writing, for a competent writer, is a fairly easy discipline. The task is to write an informative and interesting piece of work in the range of some 400-1200 words. Yet many articles that I, as an article directory editor, have seen are just not up to the mark. Why is that? Let's leave aside for the moment the ones that are grammatically poor or have been obviously assembled by cherry-picking several sources of information.
The function of an article written with the express intent of being reproduced throughout the internet on blogs, ezines and the like is to sell a product - indirectly. It should be written in such a fashion that the reader's interest is piqued and then held until the article's conclusion, resulting in a level of interest that stimulates the reader to click through to the author's site, link or whatever.
Poor articles do not achieve this goal for a variety of reasons and most of these can be summarised by the following points: ...
Steve Dempster writes fiction, copy and articles for the web. His directory site can be found here or for more writing info see his site I Want To Write!
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