Although innumerable books about how to write a blog article have been published, no attempt has really been made to discuss in detail the writing of great blog articles.
In the absence of any generally accepted method of approach to the subject, it has been necessary to work out a systematic classification of the various types of articles and of the different kinds of titles, beginnings, and similar details, as well as to supply names by which to identify them.
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A careful analysis of current practice in the writing of stories and popular articles is the basis of the methods presented. In this analysis an effort has been made to show the application of the principles of composition to the writing of articles. Examples taken from representative articles are freely used to illustrate the methods discussed.
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Particular emphasis is placed on methods of taking your knowledge and turning that “brain dump” into an article that is easy for the average reader to understand. It’s important that you learn to write in an interesting and compelling way, but not to talk over their heads.
Plus… the article should be written in such a way that the reader can use the information and apply it in their own lives. Unless you are writing for the purpose of entertaining… you are probably writing to teach. Mixing of the two is great… but if the reader can’t actually use the information to help them with a problem, they are not going to be interested in reading anymore of your information.
The problem, therefore, is to show you the writer how to present discoveries, inventions, new
methods, and every significant advance in knowledge, in an accurate and attractive form.
The idea might seem simplistic… and be regarded by some college instructors in composition as an undertaking scarcely worth their while. They would doubtless prefer to encourage their students to write what is commonly called “literature.”
The fact remains, nevertheless, that the average writer cannot write anything that approximates literature, whereas experience has shown that almost anyone can write acceptable popular articles.
Moreover, since the overwhelming majority of Americans read only blogs, newspapers and magazines, it is by no means an unimportant task for our universities to train writers to supply the steady demand for well-written articles.
Every editor of a magazine, every editor of an earnest and worthy newspaper, every publisher of books, has dozens or hundreds of important tasks for which he cannot find capable men; tasks that require scholarship, knowledge of science, or of politics, or of industry, or of literature, along with experience in writing accurately in the language of the people.
Special reports and popular articles constitute a type of writing particularly adapted to the ability of the novice, who has developed some facility in writing, but who may not have sufficient maturity or talent to undertake successful short-story writing or other distinctly literary work.
Most articles cannot be regarded as literature. Nevertheless, they afford the young writer an opportunity to develop whatever ability he possesses. Such writing teaches him four things that are invaluable to any one who “just wants to have his own blog or write for other blogs.
It trains him to observe what is going on about him, to select what will interest the average reader, to organize material effectively, and to present it attractively. If this series of articles helps the inexperienced
writer, whether he is in or out of college, to acquire these four essential qualifications for success, it will have accomplished its purpose.
Hey… I know learning the writing of great blog articles is a bit difficult to learn. Want to know how I learned to write articles that are easy to read? Informative? Interesting? I often use Public Domain (copyright free) articles from old magazines and reword them a bit to make them fit in with more current – modern “times”.
About The Author:
 Debra Conrad is an online entrepreneur, information publisher, and author that has been using Public Domain material to create profitable products and businesses since 2007. She is also co-author of "The Public Domain Treasure Hunter's Survival Kit" available here. For more info Debra, click here. |
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