Tips for a Successful Article

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.

Before you start writing an article, you need to figure out your purpose for writing the article. Concisely state that purpose, if only in your own mind. You could intend to write an article about how to make a TV antenna from coat hangars – that would be a good purpose. Or you could have a purpose to explain chelation therapy in simple terms (chelation therapy is a method of taking heavy metals out of the body). These are examples of a purpose you could have for writing. Without that purpose, your article will be confusion.

A way to make an article interesting is to state examples. See paragraph above for use of examples. People read those examples and think, "I get that!" Examples make your writing usable for the reader.

Make the article real for your readers. If you are writing an article to be read by math or computer science professors you could say "qualitative reasoning" and they would probably know what you were talking about. But if you are writing for youth science class you better stick to phrases like "computer programs for robots." Keep your language within the realm of the particular audience who will be reading it. (Note that this paragraph contains an example without saying, "for example." Repeating that phrase can get boring.)

Short sentences and paragraphs are much easier to read than lengthy ones. If readers are in a hurry (and lots of people are these days) they will chose the shorter article, paragraph or sentence to read. Part of the purpose of writing is to get people to read it, so make it easy.

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