Uselessness – the article is empty for the reader, the impression that the author “wrote for the sake of writing”. Often observed in bloggers who want to write, but have a hard time coming up with topics, so they write “about nothing”.
Meaninglessness – perhaps the author wanted to convey something to the reader, but got confused in the stream of consciousness. As a result, the essence of the article is not clear, and the reader is perplexed.
Speaking about weaknesses, it is worth highlighting common mistakes that beginners face:
Boring – an article overloaded with terms, complex language, lack of interesting thoughts and ideas. Such an article is boring to read, so readers will leave after the first paragraph.
Copying competitors – you find a successful blogger in your field, and simply repeat all of his ideas. He writes about Venice – tomorrow you write about Venice too. He gives style advice from Walter White – you give style advice from Walter White. It won’t work that way.
What kind of article can be called good? We can have long discussions, but I have identified 4 key points, by implementing which in your texts, you will certainly be liked by readers:
1 Fullness
Each article should have a goal, and the reader should get something after reading it – new knowledge, interesting ideas, tips for implementation, motivation.
Plenty is not the same as volume. You can canada telegram data write a 500-character post and it will be more useful than a 10,000-character stream of consciousness.
Don’t pour water – this is what deprives your article of that very “completeness”. It is better to overdry than to overwater.
2 Ease of assimilation
Make sure you don’t overload the reader and the information is easy to understand. It’s better to simplify than to complicate. Instead of complicated words, use “human” ones. Believe me, simple doesn’t mean stupid. But by complicating everything, you will only scare away readers.
The article should have logic. The reader should not have the feeling that the article is incoherent, and the author jumps from one thought to another fans data without bringing each of them to the end.
Structure the information into subsections, lists, headings, highlight smart thoughts and focus on the most important. Make your article easy to read.
4 Submission
I have already written about presentation above. I got this concept not from cooking, but from dancing. You may have noticed that when demonstrating the same combination, one dancer can light up the audience, while another, although performing the same movements, does not win them over at all. So, that very fire of the first dancer is called “presentation”.
What do articles and writing have to do with it? Essentially, the author is a dancer, and his text is a dance. And success depends on how well he manages to ignite the reader. Surely you have favorite authors who, even steps to creating a successful newsletter hen discussing banal topics, attract you with their vision, style, and “presentation.” Your task is to develop your own, and ignite the reader with your articles.
3 Structure of presentation
How can you do this? Practice, regular practice — that’s the only way. Write every day. Write short posts on social networks, write full-fledged articles on your blog — analyze your mistakes, learn from them. Notice what you do well, and improve on it. And then you will have both a “presentation” and good articles that people enjoy reading, want to share, and come back to again and again.
And as an appetizer, a presentation for a lecture on writing articles for the PRyanik course.