Writing Tips!
Whether you’re writing a letter, a report or writing for the web, good writing skills are important!
You should plan and organise your content and the structure of information so that it is clear and accessible to your readers. The best approach is to get to the point quickly; visitors to your website may not have the time or inclination to sift through pages of text so make sure you give important facts early on. You can then add further detail or background information if you need to. Remember that people tend to scan over a page rather than read every word at first, so keep it short and simple. Make sure you only use words that are necessary to get your message across.
Writing Tips
- To make your writing engaging, try to write in the active rather than passive form (I might do a blog just about that so watch this space!).
- Use a range of sentence lengths to give the text pace and variety but keep the paragraphs short.
- Generally, just focus on one idea for each paragraph and a good idea is to ensure it makes sense on its own, so readers get your message quickly.
- Make use of headings, subheadings and bold text to break the reading into manageable chunks and to direct attention to the most important points.
- You could use bullet points or numbered lists to break text up too.
- If you refer to topics or other pages within your text – or to other sites, be sure to link them for ease of reference for your visitors.
Watch this space for more writing tips and do leave a comment below.
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