Saturday, July 20, 2013

How to Create Quality Content in 7 Steps

How to Create Quality Content in 7 Steps
Your audience wants quality content. Avoid getting lost in the details and stay on the proven path to writing success with these 7 steps.
  1. Prewriting:
    • Know your audience's needs, wants, goals, and obstacles
    • Brainstorm solutions
    • Form an original hypothesis (a proposition made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of its truth)
    • Research what has been and is being said by credible sources
    • Consider what's not being said
  2. Outline:
    • Choose a format that best suits the topic
    • List all the main points
    • Organize related ideas together
    • Create sub headings
  3. Draft:
    • Be creative
    • Lead with originality
    • Deliver quality
  4. Revise:
    • Trim 10% of your article
    • Remove redundant content
    • Review for holes in logic
  5. Proofread:
    • Spelling
    • Commonly misused words
    • Punctuation (especially apostrophes and commas)
    • Sentence structure, run-on sentences, and awkward syntax
    • Excessive parentheticals in the form of parentheses, commas, and hyphens
  6. Final Edits:
    • Ask a family member, friend, or peer to review your work
    • Read and repeat any steps as needed

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