Friday, 4 September 2009

Tips for Attention-Grabbing Writing

By Leigh-Ann Lemire

Did you ever notice that some people can write interesting articles and some people can write about the same subject and make it boring or even unreadable? Maybe you think you are someone who falls in the second category. But no, you are probably someone who just doesn't know the technology - the rules of writing an interesting article.

If you can speak coherently, you can write a good article. There are hard and fast rules for writing that are found in books on basic English grammar and spelling, but these days you can get away with a lot of grammatical, punctuation and spelling mistakes, because your word processing program will correct them for you. (Note: no program corrects them all - you still have to proof read.) Some word processing programs even offer alternative words so you can spice up your article without repeating some adjective over and over (try a right click on a word in MS Word - then click on synonyms in the menu that appears.)

So what makes one piece of writing interesting while another on the same subject is boring? This is what we will explore in the next few paragraphs.

To begin writing an interesting article you must have clear in your mind what your purpose for writing the article is. For example, a purpose for writing an article could be to explain in layman's terms how chelation therapy works (it is a medical procedure for removing heavy metals and oxidants from the body). Or another purpose could be to describe easy steps for building a TV antenna out of coat hangars. If you don't nail down your purpose for writing the article, you will wind up with a confusing hodge podge.

Give examples in your writing. See paragraph above for use of examples. They make it much more interesting and help explain your subject so the reader understands.

Another way to make your article real to your reader and thereby make it more interesting is use of words. Figure out whom you want or expect to read your article. Then figure out what words they would understand. If you want to use a term like "qualitative reasoning," you must be writing for math and science professors. If you are writing for a high school science class, use "computer programs for robots" instead. (In this paragraph we states examples without saying we were stating examples. More interesting that repeating the phrase, "for example.")

Keep your sentences and paragraphs to a reasonable length. It is just easier to read shorter, rather than longer, sentences and paragraphs. After all, you want your articles to be read and most readers will chose the shorter sentence, paragraph, article, especially if they are in a hurry at the time they find your article.

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