Writing Articles – How A Good Outline Can Help You

For many, writing an article can be rather confusing. They have many ideas, but they can’t seem to find any head and tail in their subject, and so they end up with some gibberish that no one understands.
Let me give you a practical example. Your boss asks you to write a history of your company. You write a bit about the founding years, the second generation of leadership, include a bit about the years during the second world war, and end up writing about the challenges your company faced when expanding to other countries.
Your boss gives you his feedback, and says words to the effect of “what a mess!”
He gives you this outline as a suggestion of what he wants:
Our Company was formed
Early Years – 1910-1939
2. World War – 1940-1945
Golden Years – 1946-1980
FInal Decades of 20.th Century
Challenges and Events in 21st Century
As you get this list, you can now see your article for the Annual Report in a whole new light. You can now treat your whole article as six separate assignments. As you throw in some key words for each bullet point, the article virtually writes itself.
Once you learn to do this in your own article writing, you will find that it creates content like nothing else you have ever seen. That is the main reason so many people use this method.
The method is:
Get an overview of the job at hand
Divide it into separate subjects
Get keywords for each subject
Rewrite your keywords into content about each bullet point
Getting the Overview
Is this a food recipe, or an article for an annual report. What is your audience? What is your mission in writing this – beyond fulfilling your boss’ need for you to write this?
Dividing Into Separate Subjects
Dividing your assignment gives you logical divisions of your subject to make it easier to focus your content. There is no logic about revealing your conclusion while you’re trying to examine the problem at hand. In fact, your conclusion may seem totally unacceptable until people have read your arguments for reaching such a conclusion.
Getting Keywords for Each Subject
Getting keywords for each subject helps you get ideas that fit the headline for each subject. In that way you can get the subject exposed much better than if you just began to write about each subject.
Rewrite the Keywords Into Content
Rewriting keywords into content makes it easier to understand for your audience.
If you follow this advice, it will become much easier for you to get articles written. I hope you were helped by this article.