denisefabulous asked:


i have an assignment due for my journalism news writing class and i need to have a format in order to follow in order to write an article. for example, what would be the first think i should elaborate on and so forth.

Gary

Gorgeous flaws asked:


Without pay, of course. I’m 15.
I’m just looking for something to do while bored, and to study for my English O-levels.
The idea of writing articles or stories appeals to me.

Leighton

Rolf Zimmerli asked:


Does that title sound confusing? Well, I can understand that, but once you finish reading you’ll see that writing articles the wrong way round will speed up your writing and get you much better articles.

Writing an article seems like a daunting task, and if you do it for the first time you might feel like standing in front of an unsurmountable sleek wall that does not provide footholds to climb up and over it to reach your goal. But it’s quite easy, if you approach article writing in a systematic, step by step way. Let’s look at these steps and find out how you can write an article in a few minutes, once you have mastered this 6 step system:

The Six Step System For Article Writing

This is the most efficient and, in my experience, fastest way to write about any subject:

- define what your goal is for the article - do research if necessary - prepare an outline - start writing any part of the article - organize the article into headline, lead, body, conclusion - proof read three times at least

Who Will Read The Article - What Is The Article About?

Before you start writing, you need to define what you want to communicate with your article, and what purpose the article will serve. Ask yourself these questions: Who is the reader you want to reach, what knowledge of the subject does this reader have allready? What exactly do you want the reader to know once he’s read your article?

Best use a list with keywords to jot down your ideas. Dont’ worry about organizing these keywords yet. Once you have a bunch of keywords, start putting them in a logical sequence, the way you want to organize your story. When you have decided how your article will appraoch the subject, prepare an outline how you want to pass on this knowledge and / or information. Then start giving your article a structure.

Structure means divide the article into the four sections: headline, lead or teaser, body and conclusion. Here is the secret to effective writing that will make writing your own articles fast and painless: You don’t have to write these in the order I just mentioned them! Because it can be really difficult to come up with a good headline or teaser, if you have not written the article itself. Also don’t necessarily write the article body in the sequence that it will have once it’s ready for publishing.

It is a lot easier to first start off with a few bullet points for the body of the article. Developing these bullet points into sentences and paragraphs often, all of a sudden, leads to a great headline, or you will think of the best reason why this article provides benefit to the reader. That way you let your thoughts flow freely and don’t get writers block.

The Headline

It’s allways good to start writing a first headline for your article. The headline may change as you write. But start off with the best headline that comes to mind now. Headlines should be catchy and induce curiosity in the readers mind. Best keep your headline short, seven words or less is good. Also make it strong and affirmative: “Write your Article in 10 minutes” is better than “How to Write an Article in a short time”.

The Lead or Teaser

To get the readers attention, it’s important to start off with a lead paragraph that very briefly describes what you are going to tell the reader and why. You must grab the readers attention and give him a very good reason why reading your article is worth his time.

A great way to write an article is to start the lead paragraph with a statement, then go through the explanations and information that you want to pass on and, in your conclusion, draw a line back to the initial statement you made. This neatly wraps up everything and in the mind of the reader ‘encapsulates’ the article.

A good lead is short and to the point. It doesn’t try to compact every fact you write about in the article body into two or three sentences. Just provide enough information to get the story moving, but leave the reader wanting to know more.

The Body

In the body you go into detail and cover the points that you have written down in your outline. Here you provide the hard facts, the information and the instructions. You answer the reader’s questions and you show different angles of the subject.

Organizing this information in a logical way is the most important thing. Think of the flow of the article and make sure you have a thread that leads smoothly from one point to the next. Make sure you don’t use jargon or spcific words that are only known in an industry or trade and not used by the public. If you need to use these words, explain the meaning. Put the reader at ease.

Explain your points in short paragraphs. Short paragraphs are easier for the reader to follow. No one likes to look at a long block of solid text. Three, four or five sentences are enough for one paragraph.

If you are writing to create interest for your business, spill all the beans! Tell your trade secrets! This may sound a bit wild, but the more you tell, the more demand will be created for your goods and services.

Provide personal examples of the points you make, or create a ficticious case and show how in practice such a solution would work well. Illustrating your explanations with an example makes understanding what you say a lot easier for the reader and your text gains credibility.

The Conclusion

Remember your favourite teacher at school, the one that at the end of class would quickly summarize what was covered in the last 45 minutes? That’s what you are going to do now to finish off your article and make it a finished and polished piece. Reread your lead, where you started the circular loop that you now want to bring together by writing the conclusion.

For this article the conclusion could read like this: “Writing the wrong way round and mixing body, title, tease and conclusion whilst writing does lead to faster writing and better results, because you let your thoughts flow free and avoid writers block. When you’ll be writing your next article, footholds will magically appear on that wall that earlier used to block your writing. Go and try it!”

It’s allmost allways possible to draw the circle closed, and if it does not seem to be doable with the teaser that you have, read the entire article once more and maybe change the teaser to be able to draw that circle.

Proofreading

The best way to destroy credibility is poor grammar and spelling. Your content may be brilliant, but if there are mistakes, people will tend to dismiss what you have to say. So use the tools that are available to spell check and have a friend, or better, a few friends proofread your article before you submit it or publish it yourself. Best leave the article for a day or two and then reread it yourself. Often you’ll come up with even better formulations and the article will gain in quality. Don’t overdo this, thouhg. Once is enough for your own rereading, then go out and publish. You’ve done a great job and spent time and effort to write, now others want to read what you have to say!

… and even though I’ve written the conclusion allready as an example, here’s it true spot, so here we go again, this time reworded just slightly:

You see, writing the wrong way round and mixing body, title, tease and conclusion whilst writing does lead to faster writing and better results. This writing style allows your thoughts to flow free, lets your creativity develop thoughts and associations. Because you avoid writers block that way, you’ll be writing your next article fast and without pain. Footholds will magically appear on that wall that earlier used to block your writing. Go and try it!

Jo Mark asked:


Are your articles making you any money at all? Did you know that some entrepreneurs generate a 6 figure income writing articles? To discover some article writing secrets that can propel your income to the 6 figure level, read on.

 

1. One of the easiest ways to generate a 6 figure income writing articles is to write for others. Web masters are always looking for great unique articles to add to their website. For this reason, there is great demand for quality content. If you can write, you can make substantial profits by supplying content to this eager and hungry market.

 

And, it’s very easy to get article writing jobs. Here’s how: create a number of samples to demonstrate your writing style. Then advertise your writing services in forums. Register with at least 8 large forums and advertise your services by posting at least 5 threads a day at each forum. Using this easy technique, get ready to begin writing (and making money)!

 

2. Many people generate a 6 figure income writing articles for affiliate income. Affiliates programs allow you to promote other people’s product and get paid a commission each time one of your referrals makes a purchase.

 

Writing articles is the perfect way to promote affiliate products. All you need to do is find good products that offer affiliate programs, register with them, and then start writing articles about the products. ClickBank is one of the largest affiliate companies; they offer over 10,000 products and allow you to register for free. 

 

3. Write Articles to Sell Your Services. You can easily generate a 6 figure income writing articles if you have a service that you can offer online. Services that are in great demand are producing graphics, writing sales pages, and writing ebooks. These services are in great demand and you can easily generate a 6 figure income if you are talented in one of these areas.  

 

To get started in this lucrative field,  use forums and write articles promoting yourself as a service provider and you are on your way to a 6 figure income.

 

To generate your own 6 figure income writing articles, start writing today. Do you want to learn more about how to make money with articles? Get all the details on making Article Money!

 

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Rosamunde Bott asked:


We all know that writing articles and blogging are the best ways of marketing your website online for free.

But what if writing articles feels just as daunting as climbing Mount Everest? This can be very frustrating when everyone tells you that you should be writing network marketing articles to get traffic to your site.

In this article, I hope to show the worried marketer how to write articles with some basic steps. I am going to assume that you have done your keyword research and will include these in your article. I am not going to discuss this; my main aim here is to help people with the actual writing process itself: getting ideas and getting them down on paper (or screen).

Getting Ideas for Your Article

This is for some the most difficult hurdle. If you are new to the industry, you may think that you have very little to offer. However, we all have skills and experiences that we can draw upon. For example, this article uses my own skills as a writer to offer advice to people in the network marketing industry.

Make a list of your skills and past work experience. Even a specialist interest or hobby can supply you with knowledge that others might not have. Do you use social networking sites? Your knowledge could be used to explain how to market a business using sites like Myspace or Facebook. Do you have administrative skills? You could write an article on how to organise your office and keep your inbox tidy (I would like to read this one myself!). Do you have children? You can write about how to run a business whilst looking after a family (I’m sure this would be a popular one!)

Another idea is to log on to a marketing forum and look at the kind of questions people are asking. If you’ve ever answered a thread in a forum, then why not expand on your reply and turn it into an article? This is great because you are targeting the issues that many people have so you will get lots of hits.

You do not have to be an expert in this industry to write network marketing articles. Just think of something that you can help others with and work out how it can be linked to network marketing.

How to Start

That white page or the blank screen can look very threatening when you can’t think of how to start or how to put your ideas into order.

You don’t need to actually write proper sentences yet. Start by jotting down your initial idea, and then underneath write down all the separate points you could make. For example, if you were writing about working at home round a family, you might think of these points: working space, time management, communication with family, delegating etc. Each of these will form a separate paragraph in your article. Once you have at least three or four, you have the basis of your article and you are ready to write!

Getting it Down on Paper

Now you have all your main points, you can write a short introduction. This will form your opening paragraphs and does not have to be anything more than explaining what your article is about and why it will be of use to the reader. If in doubt, have a look at the opening three paragraphs of this article. I have started off by stating why writing articles is important, then I have described why this is difficult for some people, and then I have stated why this article will help.

Next, you want to put your separate points in order, and expand on them. Write a few sentences on each one, describing your experience and explaining how you have solved the problem, or how it’s done in your industry or profession. Giving examples from your own life or other people’s helps the reader to relate to and understand what you are saying.

At this stage, do not worry too much about grammar, spelling, or getting your sentences right. You are still just making notes, and all this can be sorted out later.

Expand and Edit

If you have not already done so, you should start putting your notes into proper sentences and organising them into paragraphs. If you are not confident about your English or grammar, read it out loud. This can help you to hear where a sentence is clumsy or does not communicate itself. If you can find someone to listen to it or read it over, all the better. Use your computer’s spell-checker, but do be aware that not every mis-spelt word is picked up here because there are many words that are spelt the same way but mean a different thing.

Try not to use very long sentences. If a sentence is too long it becomes difficult to read and understand. Look for where you can break sentences up, or include commas to break the sentence up. If you really find this difficult, you might want to get someone else to edit it for you. Some freelance writers will do this for a small fee, and it will be less expensive than having them write the whole thing for you.

Once you are satisfied, finish the article off with a brief summary or closing sentence, and there you are! All you need to do now is check it over a few more times and then get submitting.

Now you’ve written one, you can write more and more, and the more you write, the more confident you will feel.

Anthony Kristovich Iii asked:


Starting out with a new site can be a daunting task. There are literally millions and millions of websites. Only 5% of websites don’t fail. Advertising costs money, which a new site doesn’t always have to spare. So what is there to do to get people to find the site?

Write Articles.

Writing articles is one of the best-working methods of getting a site’s presence known. Search engines find the backlinks in your resource box of articles and can find your site easily. People read what you have to write and visit your site to find out more. Sometimes articles even get picked up in newsletters or ezines, giving even more coverage.

Most articles tend to be 400-1200 words. Your article should have something to say, or a point to make. Remember, you should be giving your reader good information they want, not a press release and don’t self-promote. If you write well on your topic and give good information, you only stand to gain.

There are 3 big things you get from writing articles, which are to mark you as an expert, giving you quality backlinks, and the traffic you get from people reading the articles are already interested in your topic, making them extremely targeted.

EXPERT

You mark yourself as an expert when you write articles. You are giving out free information of use to readers. Readers in general will find all of the articles you have written and come to see you as an expert due to your vast knowledge in your topic.

BACKLINKS You get high-quality backlinks to your website from the resource box of wherever your articles are on the internet. Search engines will see this and you are getting great on-topic backlinks that are now and will always be great for your link popularity.

HIGHLY-TARGETED TRAFFIC

The readers that are reading your articles are already interested in the topic and are trying to find out even more information. This means you have a highly-targeted audience right from the beginning and it is likely many readers will follow the link to your website to find out more.

Writing articles is one of the best ways to market your website there is. You get to share information with your potential visitors, and in the process get great backlinks which are always a huge part of increase your position in the search engines. You can in fact write your own success story, literally. The price … FREE.

Robert asked:


Writing articles on the web is the best form of expression in this internet centric era. The power of web has allowed us to reach millions of users surfing internet at any given point, and there is a tremendous potential to put forward your views to this audience. This is a great way to promote your website or blog as well. I personally prefer writing travel & tourism articles and following are a few tips for writing good articles which I follow.

1. Title is the most important part of any any article. A good attention grabbing title will certainly welcome users to your article. For example if you are writing an article on travel tips for Brazil tourism, you may decide to go with a simple title of “Brazil travel tips”, but I would personally prefer a title like “Going to Brazil - Important Brazil travel tips”, this will grab better attention and interest.

2. Use bullet points or numbers to break your article into several sections. It is a very good idea to bold certain words and sections of your article. Put pictures if you can, for example while writing a travel article, include maps, points of interests and other useful contact information.

3. Length of article: There is no rule but an article between 300 to 500 words is usually considered the best.

4. Search engine optimization: Optimal keyword density, using H1 tags for headings and specifying keywords in meta tags are some of the good rules to follow. Also do not forget to put the ALT tags on images.

5. Submitting your article: Try to submit articles on a website which have the same niche as your article, or at least the article is placed in the section which shares the same theme. For example if you are writing an travel article there is no point in submitting it to a site which has a niche of technology or finance.

6. Submit articles frequently: If you are a website owner then write articles often. This will encourage readers to browse your other posts and eventually visit your site for additional information.

7. Good content: Always publish original content and present facts to the best of your knowledge, regardless they are good or bad. Your article should provide unique information to the user. Specify a date when the article was written.

8. Using examples to describe your point or a situation, is also a great way to present your perspective.

9. If your article gets long, then put headings on the top and provide internal hyperlinks to rest of the article. A great example of this is wikipedia encyclopedia.

10. Social bookmark sites: After your article is published on the web, it is a good idea to bookmark with sites like Delicious and Stumbleupon. This should also help to attract additional web users to your article.

gurujione asked:


You’re working hard trying to promote your affiliate business. You have spent the necessary time in article writing and now want to engage in a little article promotion to get your name out there. You want to build that traffic back to your website so you can sell those affiliate products. However, you need to find a good article marketing program. What is a good article marketing program and what is a poor one? 

First off, a good article-marketing program will make sure that the articles you write are ready for cyber-time prime time. A good article-marketing provider will ensure your articles meet the requirements of a host of publishers around the net. A poor article-marketing program is one that does not take the time to explore your article for any content or format no-no’s. Your busy running your business and taking time for article writing can be a challenge in itself. 

That’s why it’s great to have a third-party check over your article. Their well-trained eyes can search for any flaws that will hinder your articles widespread Internet distribution. You can check it out from www.lazyman-article-guide.com. A good article-marketing program has an editorial component that makes sure your article is ready to go to publishers. 

Another characteristic of a good article-marketing program is one that offers you deep and wide distribution of an unlimited amount of articles. A good program will allow you to submit as many articles as you want for one fixed price. This means you can budget precisely for article marketing and then write to your heart’s content. A poor article-marketing program will only allow you a set number of articles to submit for a certain fee. This restricts you for articles you can submit, which in turn restricts the number of click backs you will get to your website from these articles. 

A good article-marketing program will also send these unlimited articles to the widest distribution list possible. They will also have a long list of categories you can choose from to target a market precisely. For more details you can login to www.press-release-profits.com. A poor article-marketing program will offer you fewer choices for publishers, which can hamper your article promotion campaign. 

A good article-marketing program will let you distribute the articles you write over time. They do not perform just a one-time distribution. A poor article-marketing program will not offer you this feature. You want to build traffic to your website so you need regular distribution of your articles to keep your name and links out there continually. 

You are wise to choose a service that allows you to upload your articles and schedule their distribution to when you want them to go out. In other words, you set the timetable, not the article-marketing provider. 

In addition, a good article-marketing program will let you track the progress of your article submissions. In this way, you can stay in control of your article distribution campaign. With a tracking system at your disposal, you can track where all of your articles are and how much exposure they are garnering. You can then see at a glance which articles are giving you the highest return on the time investment it took to write them. You can track submission dates and view scheduled distributions when you have access to an article-marketing tracking system. A poor article-marketing program will not offer this benefit, or will offer one that does not provide the depth of information you require. 

Finally, a good article-marketing program will make sure your article receives distribution in a careful manner that delivers many links quickly. They will also distribute your article so that it receives a regular stream of new, relevant links over time. A poor article-marketing campaign will send out your article writing efforts haphazardly, with no game plan in place to encourage consistent traffic to your website. 

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Margaret

lina b asked:


I want to to write articles in fashion magazines for women and i dont know what the proffesion is called, also what university should i go or what should i major in?

renudec2008 asked:


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You are working hard trying to support your affiliate business. You have spent the important time in article writing and now want to engage in a little article promotion to get your name out there. You want to build that traffic back to your website so you can sell those affiliate products. However, you need to find a fine article marketing plans. A good article-marketing program will make sure that the articles you write are ready for cyber-time prime time. A good article-marketing provider will guarantee your articles meet the requirements of a host of publishers around the net. A poor article-marketing program is one that does not take the time to explore your article for any content or format no-no’s. Your busy running your business and taking time for article writing can be a challenge in itself. For this reason it’s great to have a third-party check over your article. Their well-trained eyes can search for any flaws that will hinder your articles widespread Internet distribution. A good quality article-marketing plan has an editorial component that makes sure your article is ready to go to publishers. Characteristic of a superior article-marketing program is one that offers you deep and wide distribution of an unlimited amount of articles. A good program will permit you to submit as many articles as you want for one fixed price.

This means you can budget precisely for article marketing and then write to your heart’s content. A poor article-marketing program will only allow you a set number of articles to submit for a certain fee. This restricts you for articles you can submit, which in turn restricts the number of click backs you will get to your website from these articles. A good article-marketing program will also send these unlimited articles to the widest distribution list possible. They will also have a long list of categories you can choose from to target a market precisely. A poor article-marketing program will offer you fewer choices for publishers, which can hamper your article promotion campaign. A good article-marketing program will let you distribute the articles you write over time. They do not perform just a one-time distribution. A poor article-marketing plan will not offer you this feature. You want to build traffic to your website so you need regular distribution of your articles to keep your name and links out there continually. You are wise to select a service that allows you to upload your articles and schedule their distribution to when you want them to go out. In other words, you set the timetable, not the article-marketing provider. In calculation, a good article-marketing program will let you track the development of your article submissions. In this way, you can stay in control of your article distribution campaign.

With a tracking system at your disposal, you can track where all of your articles are and how much exposure they are garnering. You can then see at a glance which articles are giving you the highest return on the time investment it took to write them. To know more about it login to www.yourown-article-directory.com. You can track submission dates and view scheduled distributions when you have access to an article-marketing tracking system. A poor article-marketing program will not offer this benefit, or will offer one that does not provide the depth of information you require. Finally, a good article-marketing program will make sure your article receives distribution in a careful manner that delivers many links quickly. They will also distribute your article so that it receives a regular stream of new, relevant links over time. A poor article-marketing campaign will send out your article writing efforts haphazardly, with no game plan in place to encourage consistent traffic to your website.



Brittany