FORMATION OF AN ARTICLE:

There is no rigid format for crafting an article. It has three important parts, i.e., intro, body and conclusion which may be sometimes presented in a pyramid form or may be in a cylindrical form or may be of any other type.

 

HOW TO WRITE AN ARTICLE? :

 In order to write an article the subsequent steps should be taken care:

• Select a topic: Whenever you think of writing an article, the foundation step is to select a topic. The topic should be current, socially relevant, innovative and issue-based. It may come out from the lead stories of the front page.
• Collect reference material: After selection of the topic, relevant material should be collected from various conventional sources and non conventional sources. One may plan to interview some important and relevant personality, one plan to talk to the important sources or talk to various books from the library.
• Gate keeping: This involves three processes. Selection of the relevant and the related material of the subject concerned. Rejection of some other portion of the collected material. Some of the material are out lightly rejected as these are felt to be of no avail. And some of the matters are “spiked”, i.e., it may be used and mat not be used.
• Evaluate: After the selection of the related, relevant and useful material, it evaluated as to how much importance should be given to which divisions, which aspect and which issues in accordance with the journalistic requirement of the subject or theme of the article. What should be the actual length of the article and to which column or page or selection or newspaper or journal it should be sent, is also decided in the evaluation process.
• Presentation: While writing an article, you should pay attention to some of the elementary points of presentation.
• Clarity: There should be conceptual and linguistic clarity in the article you are going to write. For bringing about clarity in your article, first of all you should yourself understand the subject or the theme through and through. If you don’t understand something, you can’t simply it. Moreover, the language should also be plain and simple and should be easily understandable to common readers.
• Conciseness: Before writing an article, you should keep in mind that verbosity is not the basic of a good article. “small is beautiful”. So use short words, short sentences, short paragraphs and the whole article should be short, brief and concise. Very long and lengthy articles are not considered to be readable or communicable and is giving to be against professional desirability today.
• Continuity: Continuity is none-the-less significant in article writing. It means flow. It indicates maintaining a link between first sentence and second sentence, between second sentence and third sentence, between one paragraph and other paragraph. That is to say that your whole write up should be so properly interwoven that the ideas should not appear to be scattered Or fractured or divided.
• Correctness: correctness is equally important while writing an article. Factuality is the elementary aspect of our journalism, despite the fact that it has emerged as the biggest Casualty today.

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