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.)

In the rest of this article we will learn some tips that make one piece of writing appealing and another dull.

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.

Another tip for writing an interesting article would be to give examples. Examples make it real for the reader. Examples elicit the „Oh, yeah, I get it now!“ See paragraph above for use of examples.

Figure out who exactly will read your article, and write as if you are speaking to those readers. Keep your use of language and specialized terms within the vocabulary of those people who will use the information. You could say „computer programs for robots“ if you were writing for a high school science class, instead of „qualitative reasoning“ if you were writing for math and computer science professors. (Now there’s an example thrown in without stating that it is an 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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