Article Writing Tips | Avoidable eHow Blunders Part 4
This is the last of my article writing tips on eHow blunders. This one is simple yet for some reason so many people just don’t bother with it.
SPELL CHECK your articles and make sure it reads well. Let me repeat myself, don’t rely on the spell check feature of either eHow, Firefox or whatever editor you are using. Sometimes the spell check will recommend a word that, although correct, is not what you intended.
After you publish your article make sure you give it a read through. Sometimes you will catch a word that is spelled correctly but is in the wrong tense or plural or whatever. Go back and fix it.
As I’ve said so many times, we may not know exactly what makes a person click, but we sure as hell know what makes a person hit the back button.
A poorly written article with typos and other misspellings is an indication that the author just doesn’t care.
This is one of the easiest article writing tips to implement, make sure you do it!
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Reader Comments
Hey Norm, quick question — do you back up your articles by writing them first in Notepad, Word, or similar? I created a Word template that I use for all of my eHow articles, and it’s been great. Now I’ll always have a back up, it does spell checking on the fly, and I figure I can use the articles as writing samples if I want to apply to pay-up-front freelance sites. What can I say, I love Word!
So far I’ve been using, of all things, notepad. I’ve been toying around with creating a SQL database (I’m a DBA) for the ultimate in article storage and searching. That’s far down the road though. That word template sounds interesting though, maybe I’ll look into it.