Article writing can be so much fun. It can also be a real bore depending on what you’re writing about. In either case, you’ve got to suck it up and put your best foot forward or nobody is going to read your work. The question is, how do you dress up your article? Do you put on your best suit or just some plain clothes? If you don’t know what I mean, I’m talking about style. Yes, style is important, but it doesn’t always have to be dressed in a tuxedo. This article explains.

Let’s say you’re going to write an article about a grand event. Let’s say that every important person in the world is going to be at this event. Let’s say as part of your article you need to tell you readers who was there. What do you think is going to sound better? “At the grand ball, I saw Carol Starstruck enter the big room” or “Carol Starstruck entered the grand ball with all the grace of a swan in a fairy tale”? Naturally the more descriptive description is going to capture your reader’s attention a lot better.

But the “dress me up in a tux” approach doesn’t work for every article. If you’re writing a piece on World War II, the last thing you want to do is dress it up. You want to make people see the horrors of war, but the last thing you want to do is make it sound like a four star movie. I think they call it good taste. This will be especially true if you’re writing about the Holocaust, which is a very sensitive subject with a lot of people. In this case, subdued would be the better approach.

Unfortunately, there is no black book that we can turn to in order to find out how to write each article we’re going to tackle. For this, we have to use some common sense. Think about your subject matter and what your reader is going to expect. Fancy might work with some things, but with others, it’s probably a better idea to just state things plainly. With experience, you’ll get the hang of it.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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