We are getting very close to the end of this series…praise the article king! All kidding aside, in this installment of article writing tips, A-Z, we’re up to the letter R which stands for research. Man, is this something that is sorely lacking in many articles. Well, if you’re going to write articles on topics that you know little about, something that I avoid like the plague, you better do your research. This article explains why this is so important.

Probably the biggest reason why research is so important is credibility…yours. Imagine you write about some topic, whatever it is, and you spout all these “facts” that aren’t facts at all, and at the end of it you offer your advice to the reader based on these facts. What do you think is going to happen when the reader takes your advice and it blows up in his face because your “facts” are all wrong? Do you think this person is ever going to trust another one of your articles again? I know I wouldn’t.

Trouble is, many people don’t know how to do research. Well, let me spell it out for you. It’s NOT reading somebody else’s article and putting it in your own words. Research is going to a number of reference materials, books, journals, authoritative sources, and taking ALL of that information, absorb it, understand it and THEN relay it to your reader in a way that they can understand, citing all reference material that you used, either at the end of the article or within the article itself such as, “The XYZ paper reported that…” and so on.

That’s research. That’s going to send your credibility sky high. Readers will actually look forward to reading your articles. Is this time consuming? You bet your sweet petunias it is, which is why I rarely write about something I don’t know like the back of my hand.

Research…it can make or break you as a writer.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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