Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Week 4 Lynda.com Certification: Writing Articles

Today I watched Writing Articles on Lynda.com. First off, I had no idea that there were different ways to write articles so that was already shocking for me. I loved when the speaker Tom Gellar said “have your motivation, topic, structure, and story in place before you write.” This is so important for me. If I’m writing on a topic that bores me, it’s a massively daunting task to create an engaging story for the reader and myself. Learning about Scriviner, which help you organize your materials, was nice to find out about. I’m someone who has to have my materials in order before I start anything because it makes my process easier. I didn’t know that video and audio articles existed and I also hadn’t realized that articles are nonfiction, because I hadn’t thought about it. Learning the different kind of articles types was also fun; features, news, reviews, commentary, promotional, research, and how-to’s. I personally write a lot of reviews and I hadn’t realized I’m writing a form of article.


Doing proper research is so important now, because the internet has so much information available, you can find truths and non truths on any topic you research. The most helpful tips I learned were to go for research. I learned about Google Scholar.


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