Ingredients Needed to Write Attractive and Easy to Read Article

Your style is the manner in which you express your ideas. That is the words you use and the order in which you use them.

Your aim should always be for clarity. Your style should be an attractive and as easy to read as you can make it. When I say attractive, I mean that at least it should be attractive to you and sound good when you read it yourself. If you don’t like your style, then it is most unlikely that anybody else will either. But, remember this all your writing life, whatever style you develop it should be unique to you. Of course, you can learn a lot by studying the style of other writers. Even so, do not attempt to write exactly like them. It would only be, at the best, as second-rate imitation.

Your style must develop naturally from within yourself. Neither I nor anybody else can impose a style upon you and say it will suffice you for the rest of your writing life. It is unlikely that you will have a perfect, natural style from the start. It has to be worked at and honed until you produce attractive prose. It takes time to develop a style, too. Practice leads to a facility to write and, of course, the more you practice and write, the more confident and better you will become. 

In eighteenth century Jonathan Swift, the famous novelist, commented on writing style as follows: Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style. 

Here the 5 C’s – correctness, conciseness, clarity, coherence and completeness should be considered and be applied in writing of non-fiction.

• Correctness – your facts must be accurate and your use of the English language must also be correct.
• Conciseness – this does not necessarily mean brevity. You can write a long article and still be concise. What it does mean is avoiding irrelevant facts, unnecessary words and long-winded explanations.
• Clearness – avoid ambiguity. Make what you write clear to your reader by giving him all the necessary information and expressing it in a way he will be sure to understand.

The readers should not have to read a sentence or paragraph more than once in order to understand its meaning. If your meaning is obscure readers will not spend time puzzling over it. They will turn to something else which can be understood easily, that is if the work is even published in the first place.

Clarity in writing must be preceded by clarity of thought. If you are not sure what you hope to say you cannot expect to express your meaning in the correct words. The better you are at thinking, the more skilled you should be at writing. You should have a clear of what you want to say at the start, middle and end of an article or story when you sit down to begin it.

• Coherence – this means presenting your ideas in an orderly, logical way so that your reader is able to follow your reasoning process.
• Completeness – ensure that your reader has all the facts that are available without being burdened with what is unnecessary or trivial. 

Finding Ideas is No Longer a Big Deal

If you were just a novice blogger or a beginner online writer and are experiencing the difficulty of getting ideas to write for articles to be published on your blog site or website - you can actually consult to the dictionary of subjects. This can help you level-up your online blogging activities but of course, bear in mind also that an article on an everyday topic can be more profitable if you can begin with a topical reference.

The important thing in subject finding is to get a starting tip to focus your thoughts. Any dictionary will provide you countless starting points; sometimes a single word will suggest many subjects. Jot down all the ideas that occur to you and select those on which you can say something of interest to the average reader. Sometimes one word will frequently suggest another. Of course, there are other ways in finding ideas like Dickens – he drew his material from the London streets. Richard Jefferies from the hedgerows and fields while Conrad from the sea.

Furthermore, looking for ideas is amusing than waiting for them to come your way. Wherever you live there are people who are ready to give you interesting facts drawn from their special experience – provided that you make the right approach for them. Keep your ears open. There are lots of specialists around you – specialists in food, sports, education, housing, decoration and etc. All these people have expert knowledge and they may have interesting things to reveal to you about current trends in their particular field.

For more details: The Dictionary of Subjects and Ideas

Turn Your Article Into Photo Blog

Thanks to whirling people machine, a photo by joiseyshowaa on Flickr.

I assumed that every one here is running his own blog site because aside from social networks, forum groups and other bookmarking sites where to market our published articles and other stuff we owned – blog sites are also awesome marketplaces to display our products. Of course, not all publishing sites are tolerant to let you republish your articles published on their sites. However, you can still share them on your blog site through linking the URL links alone.

Below are effective ways I  applied to expose my article pages to my blog site. These methods have worked for me in many ways. They helped attract traffic and views to my blog site and also bring traffic and views to the websites who first published them and improved my creative thinking. 

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• I turned my article into photo blog.
• I changed the old title I used to a new title.
• I wrote a new summary for the article previously published.
• I uploaded the whole article to my blog site without changing or revising anything.
• I included the URL link going to the website who first published it.

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HubPages For Awesome Hubs and Online Income

Aside from ExpertsColumn, I also write for HubPages, Squidoo, Triond, Wikinut and other publishing sites. Every time I share my published articles or columns from those publishing sites I am connected with, I applied the following: I wrote a short summary of the article and included the URL link of the article. Or I used the article title at which the URL link of the article is inserted.

At Hubpages I asked about the right way “how to share hubs” to our blog sites and other publishing sites. I might say that this is also useful for other writers who are also writing for Hubpages – read what Chloe says – she is one of the best and top hubbers at HubPages with a score of 100. She’s only 22 years old and a fifth year senior planning to graduate this December with a degree in creative writing. And has published at least 80 original of unique and good quality contents hubs at Hubpages.

Chloe says, “Hubpages prides itself in its reputation of interesting unique content on the internet. And rightly so, it ranks better in google if you have an article in one place instead of in several. With different usernames on different websites google can’t always tell if an article is written by the same person and can assume the article has been plagiarized.

“If an article is plagiarized, its value goes down because the author cannot be verified. You can link to your hubpages article from these other sites and write a short teaser or summary but most other sites don’t like it when you post just a teaser unless it’s a personal blog and then you can do whatever you want.

“If you want to use similar information somewhere else you have to completely re-write your article – you can check it on copyscape.com to see if it triggers for duplicate content as a safeguard before you publish. So you have to determine where the best place to post each article is.”

Hubpages is different – if they spotted a portion of the hub you published here, or on other publishing sites or on your blog site – HubPages will immediately unpublished the hub you first published on their site, no matter how long the hub was published on their site.

From Chloe I learned the following:

• the reputation of unique content on the Internet
• the posibility for better ranking in Google
• the value of plagiarized and copied article
• the use of copyscape.com for duplicate content
• the importance of re-writing the article

Now all hubbers of HubPage have their own Hubpage domain name. I created mine aspaulpruel.hubpages.com that caters my first ten hubs. At hubpage – a hubber can ask questions and is welcome to hubpage forum group. A hubber earns from Hubpages AdProgram, Ebay Sales and Amazon Sales. Hubpages.com is also hosting contest of different subject topics such as article writing, short story writing (fiction or non-fiction), poetry writing, photos and videos, books and ebooks writing and many more.

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You Need Creative Talent and Imagination

There are at least approximately 100,000 magazines and newspapers published world-wide in the English language (not included yet the online publishing sites that accept contributions from writers from around the world). Most of these purchase articles and stories fromfreelance writers. The major English language markets are in the USA, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. But in addition there are at least another 40 countries that have some publications in English.

Writing is one of the most rewarding occupations or pastimes. It is an activity for which there is an enormous demand. Editors and publishers are always on the lookout for new writers and fresh ideas. Consequently, in the next few months alone, very good incomes will be earned in fees and royalties by freelance writers and you could easily be one of them.

If you can also write to an acceptable standard in another language, then even moreopportunities are open to you. Next there are thousands of fiction and non-fiction books published each year, as well as scripts for radio, TV, video and stage plays. Thus as you can see, there really are many potential outlets for your writing.

The more you write, the better you will become

Once you have learned how to write for these markets, then you should have no difficulty in selling your work. This applies just as much to the part-timer, writing for fun and recreation, as it does to the full-time professional. This is not difficult, for writing is a skill which, like all the other artistic skills, you can learn and develop with practice.

Actually you do not need any special educational qualifications or background knowledge to become a writer. Nor does it matter where you live. Successful writers come from all walks of life and from all round the world. Housewives, teachers, civil servants, businessmen, senior citizens (for there is no age limit) and even teenagers are just a few of the people who have become published writers.

Fame and fortunes are waiting

Once you have developed your writing skills, you have exactly the same opportunities for fame and fortune as anyone else. How will you do and how far you go will depend solely on your own application and creative talent. In other words, it is entirely up to yourself. If other people have made it, then surely with a little effort, you can make it also.

One of the biggest problems all new writers face, is where and how to sell their writing. Don't let this worry you, for as I have already said, there is a huge potential market waiting for you. If your plan is to sell your writing on print media, there is America, Britain, Canada, Australia, Africa, the Pacific Rim and throughout Europe and the Middle East.

In addition to them, there are thousands online publishing sites across the Internet, who are thirsty and hungry - looking for fresh ideas from contributors from round the world like Hubpages.com, Triond, Wikinut, Helium, Bukisa, ExpertsColumn. As part of your practice, you can start writing your awesome original articles and other pieces through a blog site you owned or sharing them with other blog sites owners or directly to publishing sites.

You need enthusiasm and perseverance

In addition to your creative talent, you also need enthusiasm and perseverance. But you do not need to be either particularly gifted or very clever. There are many otherwise ordinary people, from ordinary backgrounds who, with diligence and perseverance, have had a lot of fun, enjoyment and extra money from their writing.

If you do not possess these personal qualities of enthusiasm to write and perseverance, then neither I nor anybody else can help you. But if, on the other hand, you have these personal qualities then you will find that honest endeavor will bring you its own rewards, as any successful writer will tell you.

You need creative talent and imagination

In addition to your perseverance you need also, of course, some creative talent and imagination. Many people have much more creativity in them than they realize, but they are often unaware of it. How to judge if you have some writing potential?

Here are a few pointers to help you:

• A love word of words and literature is a good start, for these are the writers stock-in-trade.
• A strong desire to put your thoughts and ideas on paper is a very good sign. This will give you the necessary motivation to keep on writing.
• Another guide is to study the work of other writers. When you read a book, a story or an article and think, 'I could write as well as that', your creative imagination is starting to work. Try to improve the work you have just read and your imagination is working even more - proving you have an active one.
• But the best test of all is to try writing yourself about anything that interests you.

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For Style You Need The Five C's to Express Your Ideas

Your aim should always be for clarity. Your style should be an attractive and as easy to read as you can make it. When I say attractive, I mean that at least it should be attractive to you and sound good when you read it yourself. If you don’t like your style, then it is most unlikely that anybody else will either. But, remember this all your writing life, whatever style you develop it should be unique to you. Of course, you can learn a lot by studying the style of other writers. Even so, do not attempt to write exactly like them. It would only be, at the best, as second-rate imitation.

Your style must develop naturally from within yourself. Neither I nor anybody else can impose a style upon you and say it will suffice you for the rest of your writing life. It is unlikely that you will have a perfect, natural style from the start. It has to be worked at and honed until you produce attractive prose. It takes time to develop a style, too. Practice leads to a facility to write and, of course, the more you practice and write, the more confident and better you will become.

In eighteenth century Jonathan Swift, the famous novelist, commented on writing style as follows: Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style. Your style is the manner in which you express your ideas. That is the words you use and the order in which you use them.

Here the 5 C’s – correctness, conciseness, clarity, coherence and completeness should beconsidered and be applied in writing of non-fiction.

• Correctness – your facts must be accurate and your use of the English language must also be correct.
• Conciseness – this does not necessarily mean brevity. You can write a long article and still be concise. What it does mean is avoiding irrelevant facts, unnecessary words and long-winded explanations.
• Clearness – avoid ambiguity. Make what you write clear to your reader by giving him all the necessary information and expressing it in a way he will be sure to understand.

The readers should not have to read a sentence or paragraph more than once in order to understand its meaning. If your meaning is obscure readers will not spend time puzzling over it. They will turn to something else which can be understood easily, that is if the work is even published in the first place.

Clarity in writing must be preceded by clarity of thought. If you are not sure what you hope to say you cannot expect to express your meaning in the correct words. The better you are at thinking, the more skilled you should be at writing. You should have a clear of what you want to say at the start, middle and end of an article or story when you sit down to begin it.

• Coherence – this means presenting your ideas in an orderly, logical way so that your reader is able to follow your reasoning process.
• Completeness – ensure that your reader has all the facts that are available without being burdened with what is unnecessary or trivial.

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Door to Quick Success

If you’re writing to newspapers or magazines – the quickest way to print is undoubtedly via short articles, fillers and readers’ letters. This method can also be applied to online writing.

These must be written to conform to the style of the newspaper or magazine to which you intend to submit but if you are eager to have something published, these are the areas on which to concentrate such as:

Anniversaries of the birth or death of famous people or of events in the past are the source of saleable articles to a wide range of magazines and newspapers. They must be properly researched, accurate and well-written, which goes without saying. The writer who is first in submitting a subject should be virtually certain of a sale with an anniversary article tailored to the right market, of the correct length and style and with some fresh material in it, which has not been flogged to death by all the other published material on that anniversary.

Editors like to receive letters from readers, even when the letters are critical of what has been printed. It reassures editors that some one out there is reading the publication. Consequently, many journals pay for the letters they print. To the alert freelance and online writers such letters can be an additional source of income.

Letters to the editors should be kept short. They rarely exceed one-hundred fifty words and they often shorter than that. What counts is the idea and the forcefulness with which it is argued. A large number of weekly and monthly magazines aside daily newspapers are keen to receive controversial letters and pay for them. Of course, there are also weekly and monthly magazines and newspapers that do not pay.

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Aspire to High Quality Contents

I recognized him with his black and white cat-foot. I saw its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, over the ears and across its round body. I thought if he saw me he would become wild but I was wrong. When he saw me he smiled at me and invited me to sit down beside him. What a beautiful morning it was!

I also found that Google Panda occasionally eat other grasses, wild tubers, or even meat in the form of birds, rodents or carrion, honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, or bananas along with specially prepared feed aside from bamboo. For him they are all unique and healthy foods and drinks - reasons why Google Panda is always crawling around and spotting unique and quality contents round the clock.

So I did not waste my time. I started our conversation with laughter and normal greetings. And then my short interview for him followed. For all the questions I asked, he answered them directly to the point. He was smart, friendly and it made me comfortable. And for the record, the below is the recorded interview I made with Google Panda.

Purpose of Google Panda

Pruelpo: For what purpose Google has recruited you early last year?

Google Panda: The purpose is mainly to give better search results. The change aims to lower the rank of low quality content sites in search results and return high-quality sites to its users.

Affected Websites

Pruelpo: Did it show good results? What websites mostly were affected?

Google Panda: Yes. It has affected the rankings of all search results. News websites and Social Networking sites benefited for this changes – their rankings rise but a drop in rankings for Advertising sites.

Aspire to High Quality Contents

Pruelpo: You mentioned earlier about low quality content sites – What advice you can suggest to the owners or to the publishers of those sites?

Google Panda: To get high ranking pages on search results those publishers should aspire to conceive those low quality contents to high quality contents for their sites. If those publishers are hosting individual content writers – they should encourage them to produce articles with unique and good quality contents. Now Google has started spotting, tracking and indexing acknowledgment of contents created by the individual content creators with the websites they appear on through listing the author’s link.

Online Writing is Different From Writing on Print Media

Pruelpo: What advice you can suggest to the individual content creators to produce articles with good quality contents?

Google Panda: For the benefits of all writers, first of all, they should realize that online writing is different from writing on print media like newspapers and magazines. If writers wrote articles for online publication with good quality contents the Search Engine crawlers will always love to crawl down those articles and will keep them coming back a year round because they found them as quality provider of good contents.

Need a Lot of Good Quality Contents

Pruelpo: I see your points though still I need more clarifications. Could you please elaborate them?

Google Panda: Writers should avoid publishing anything that is not quality or original content. They should avoid mixing some lower quality stuff with that high quality stuff just to get number of articles to publish. Injecting non-unique contents on their articles could not attract Search Engine crawlers. They need a lot of good quality contents and need to post them frequently. Frequency is also important part of the process because it helps train crawlers to come to find the healthy food to bite. Search Engines will be happy to see that writers are consistently feeding good quality contents for the crawlers.

Avoid Not to Keyword Stuff of Contents

Pruelpo: They sound good and very effective. Are there some more helpful tips that you can advice to writers other than those you mentioned a while ago?

Google Panda: Writers should write naturally with good English grammar. And they should avoid not to keyword stuff of their contents. If they write articles of 500, 1000 and above words long – they should pick a main keyword and put it in the title of the post. They should select a bunch of sub-phrase keywords that relate the primary keyword and use them on sub-headings and fill them in about 100 to 200 per sub-section. Or for every 100 words they write they should use the keyword only once. For a five hundred word article they would use keyword at least five times. However, they can also mix two or three other keywords into the article with the primary keyword. They can also use the primary keyword once in the closing paragraph of the article. And also they can create links in the content to other pages.

Not Yet Too Late for Us

The interview with Google Panda was interesting, memorable and exciting one. Now I realize that it is not yet too late for us writers to write unique with good quality content articles. Following Google Panda’s advice we can improve our writing capabilities and avoid his robust dropkicks!

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Learn From Past Writers

No Full-time Freelance Writer Can Hope to Make a Living From Writing Unless He Has a Steady Output. He cannot afford to be like the poet who, when asked what he had done that day, replied: Well, during the morning I put a comma in and during the afternoon I took it out again. The dedicated writer should be continually writing or planning his writing. When he is not on holiday, or even when he is, he should be producing words, either on paper or in his head. The late Neil Bell, a brilliantly inventive novelist and short story writer, said: When you have completed a piece of work and sent it away to a publisher don't waste time in speculating what may happen to it. Sit down and begin writing something else. A writer can never write too much.

One of the most prolific writers was the late John Creasy who founded, with some friends, the British Crime Writers' Association. Creasy admitted that before he sold his first story he collected 740 rejection slips. Undeterred, he went on to become one of the world's best known and admired writers of mystery novels.

When he died in 1973 Creasy had - had 560 books published in eighty countries. It was a remarkable achievement for a man who had to leave grammar school at the age of 14 (he was the seventh son of a family of nine) because his father was ill and his parents needed the money he could earn as an office boy in London.

Other past and fast writers have included: Georges Simenon, creator of Inspector Maigret; Alexander Dumas, who once wrote a full-length romance in 36 hours; Edgar Wallace who, using dictaphones and a fast stenographer, dictated his thrillers at 3,500 words an hour. Even more incredible was Samuel Johnson, the 18th century lexicographer and writer who, short of money when his mother died, sat down and wrote a novel Rasselas in the evenings of one week to pay for her funeral and her debts!

Amazing as these cases are - and most writers would like to emulate them - writers usually settle down to their own rhythm and a speed at which they can steadily write. Setting a target too high and trying to reach it daily could lead to poor creativity and a low standard of written English caused by the desperate attempt to reach the target. Set yourself a target within your capabilities, which you know you can comfortably reach without any of this happening. You will then feel happy with your writing output at the end of the day and what you have created will be of saleable standard.

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About the Author – My favorite Saying: “Dream Big and don’t stop without giving it a chance to come true.” I am a father of 3 for 25 years, OFW for 17 years , a Blogger, sometimes a Poet, Self-motivated and Professional by experience. You can call me Paul or Pruel. I am friendly animal but can kick you off when it is needed. LOL. I have no specific areas where my writing will focus on. I write any subject that interests me under the merciless sun.

Problems with Plurals

Those who do not remember all the rules regarding noun plurals will probably sympathize of this humorous jingle: Lawless Language written by anonymous author.

We will begin with a fox and the plural is foxes,
But the plural of ox should never be oxes.
One fowl is a goose and the plural is geese,
But the plural of moose would not therefore be meese.

So also for mouse the plural is mice,
But for house it is houses – we never say hice.
And since the plural of man is always called men,
For the plural of pan, why cannot we say pen?

Then one may be that and three may be those,
Yet rat in the plural is never called rose.
And the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim!

So English, I fancy, you all will agree,
Is the most lawless language you ever did see.

English is not a lawless language. There are valid linguistic factors that account for their irregularities. One such factor is our tendency to retain the original plurals of words we have borrowed from other languages. Thus from Greek we have retained criteria as the plural of criterion; from the Latin, data as the plural of datum. And from the Old English have come special plural forms that help us avoid difficult or harsh pronunciations. For example, mice is the plural of mouse and teeth is the plural of tooth.

However, irregular noun plurals represent only a small percentage of the nouns in the English language. There are principles governing the formation of noun plurals such as:

Rule 1: Usually we form the plural of a noun by adding an s to the singular form such as apple to apples, boy to boys, flower to flowers, tree to trees and etc. However, there are four groups of exceptions to this rule such as: church to church+es, knife to kni+ves, echo to echo+es and glory to glor(i)+es.

Rule 2: Some nouns are plural in the form (they end in s) but are frequently used in a singular sense. these words may take either a singular or a plural verb, depending on the sense in which they are used. Example: Politics as singular: Politics is a controversial subject. (seen as a collective noun which requires a singular verb). Politics as plural: His politics are obscure. (seen as principle that govern his actions).

Rule 3: Still other nouns are plural in form and require a plural form of verb even though they are singular in meaning such as: Where are the scissors? and These trousers belong to me.

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About the Author – My favorite Saying: “Dream Big and don’t stop without giving it a chance to come true.” I am a father of 3 for 25 years, OFW for 17 years , a Blogger, sometimes a Poet, Self-motivated and Professional by experience. You can call me Paul or Pruel. I am friendly animal but can kick you off when it is needed. LOL. I have no specific areas where my writing will focus on. I write any subject that interests me under the merciless sun.