By: Jane Sumerset
Submitted: 2009-12-19 00:40:41 | Word Count: 520
To make your writing more appealing, you should try out some spices that can add up extra points in your content as to what your readers would love you to have. Plain texts are mere boring to read especially when you use long sentence structures, long content, hanging writings where ideas are not carefully elaborated and supported by facts and especially when there are plenty of grammatical and spelling errors.
It’s a bit annoying to read if your writings are not properly formatted if ever I am going to be one of your readers. and you don’t want that to happen right? Even if you are a beginner in the writing field, you can still create a nice and good quality article or novel of your own. You need to be familiar with editing and proofreading. Also, be more knowledgeable in revising your content.
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Omit those words that are unnecessary in your article and make your sentence and paragraphs direct but a bit entertaining so that your readers would love to go through your piece. You don’t have to rush yourself, creativity is one of the factors that you should possess so that your ideas when put into writing will be set up in an organize manner.
Another tip that can make your topic interesting is to place some quotes in your piece. This will at least gives your article a bit of life while stating some expressions that are relevant to your topic or some quoted statements by people who also contribute to the issue or to the subject of your writing.
When writing copy, quotes can be used to both strengthen and illustrate the points you are trying to make. Instead of making your case with ideas right out of the same voice, you can use other’s statements to help build your message.
1. When quoting a source for the first time, introduce them before the quote. Later on, you can spare the niceties.
Allan Iverson, who recently joined the team, said “None of the rumors are true.”
2. When quoting a longer statement, always add the attribution either at the beginning or in the middle. For shorter statements, attributing either in the beginning or end will do.
“I don’t know what to write,” she exclaimed. “My mind is drawing a blank.”
3. You can split short quotes for effect, although you’ll have to check whether it makes things work or just muddles a simple statement up.
“I’m confused,” Jay exclaimed, curling his brows, “by the whole ordeal.”
4. When quotes continue to a new paragraph, don’t add a closing quote to the previous paragraph but add an opening quote to the new one.
5. If the quoted statement is not a complete sentence, the punctuation should remain outside the quote mark. As much as possible, refrain from quoting more than one or two incomplete sentences in your copy.
A good number of non professional writers are ill trained in proper quoting techniques. To ensure the correctness of what you’ve done, make sure to run your copy through an English grammar software to check.
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