How to Create Quality Content in 7 Steps
Your audience wants quality content. Avoid getting lost in the details and stay on the proven path to writing success with these 7 steps.
- Prewriting:
- Know your audience's needs, wants, goals, and obstacles
- Brainstorm solutions
- Form an original hypothesis (a proposition made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of its truth)
- Research what has been and is being said by credible sources
- Consider what's not being said
- Outline:
- Choose a format that best suits the topic
- List all the main points
- Organize related ideas together
- Create sub headings
- Draft:
- Be creative
- Lead with originality
- Deliver quality
- Revise:
- Trim 10% of your article
- Remove redundant content
- Review for holes in logic
- Proofread:
- Spelling
- Commonly misused words
- Punctuation (especially apostrophes and commas)
- Sentence structure, run-on sentences, and awkward syntax
- Excessive parentheticals in the form of parentheses, commas, and hyphens
- Final Edits:
- Ask a family member, friend, or peer to review your work
- Read and repeat any steps as needed
