Researching For An Article
No matter how superior some article writers claim to be, most of the research for articles is probably done on the Internet. That seems to be the general rule as far as the regular article goes. You look for material on the subject, you gather enough, you put it into some kind of order, you give it a slant depending on the way you look at the subject and you write a brand new article. Like I said, that is what is usually done. For an article writer who writes hundreds of articles a month, this is usually the way to go.
However, you could just be writing an article on something new. Something that is your point of view, something that you feel is a totally different take on a particular subject. Then, the article needs more than just Internet research perhaps. You need to get your facts and figures absolutely right if you are quoting them. You need to get certain quotes right if you want an authentic feel. In short, you need to spend more time researching. The library, news items, reports, interviews, data…….you need to go the whole nine yards.
The result? An article that is unique. One that stands head and shoulders above the rest. One that is unique and makes you proud to put your name at the end of it. Sure you will probably keep churning out the other stuff, putting it through Copyscape to make sure there are no plagiarism issues. But the one you do with a lot of care and hard work is the one that you will put up as a sample of the kind of work you do. It’s the one that says ‘you’. You’ll always be proud of it.
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July 1st, 2008 at 10:01 am
What a pity that I just now realized that you have been blogging for some time. Had I known from the time you started, I would have been there cheering you up from the beginning! I have now read all the posts here from your Bismillah one and must say that I am happy I found the link on your gmail chat address!
You should have told me when you launched it. Unforgivable really!
Having got all that off my chest, here is congratulating you and wishing you all the very best for this blog.