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Would you like to improve your writing? Take a look below at advice from some of the best.

Mr. Hetherington

Copywriting 101 - The Structure of Persuasive Content

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Substansive Writing

This is a sample passage from “How to Write a Paragraph” by Richard Paul and Linda Elder. Remember, there are many ways to structure your writing. Here is one of them.

• 1. Choose a subject or idea of importance.
  2. Decide on something important to say about it.
  3. Explain or elaborate your basic meaning.
  4. Construct examples that will help readers connect what you are saying to events and experiences in their lives.
  5. Construct one or more analogies and/or metaphors that will help readers connect what you are writing about with something similar in their lives.

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Alan Lightman, famous essayist and author of the bestseller “Einstein’s Dreams”, in his introduction to Best American Essays 2000 says:

…In reading an essay, I want to feel that I’m communicating with a real person, and a person who cares what he or she is writing about…

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Gentle Reader, Stay Awhile; I Will Be Faithful by Amber Simmons

“To be a faithful writer is to form a clear mental picture of that reader and speak to him as a real person. A faithful writer keeps at the forefront of her mind that she is writing for someone, that her work is only truly completed in the reader himself. A faithful writer makes the reader glad he stayed.”

Read the whole post. It’s long but answers the question “Why should we write?”  For the reader, of course! When writing, think of your audience not as a large group, but as a single reader who is very interested in what you have to say.