I've managed to create a system for writing a Demand Studios article every 20 minutes.
1. Find three to four sources from medical websites (I mostly write health articles). You should have a list of reputable medical websites. My list is eMedicineHealth, University of Iowa, the Mayo Clinic, and NIH's official website. I go to each individual site and type in my topic and quickly skim it. That's it -- research completed in 5-10 minutes.
2. Open up WordPad (do not type in the Demand Studios submission template yet) and write four to five paragraphs about your topic. I mainly do strategy articles, which is a basic tell people what to do, don't get into too much detail. Abouts require more detail, but if you have the right sources, you can pull them from those articles and fill in the details.
3. Make to credit each section you write with your source. Such as "According to the Mayo Clinic, diabetes is a...". Attributing sources helps out the editors and significantly decreases rewrites. Make sure you are using active writing - don't get elaborate, state things clearly! Don't assume the reader knows anything!
4. Paste the sections into the submission template. Write your intro. What works for me is using a statistic in the first sentence - if it is about diabetes, for example, I would write how many people are affected by it. The next sentence summarizes what is discussed in the following sections. End the intro by telling the reader how this article will benefit him or her.
Strategy and Abouts are the easiest to do with this method. How Tos are frankly too much work and I usually avoid it.
Make sure you are familiar with these formats and how to do APA style also - spending several hours learning all of DA's rules will increase your writing speed. Do not skip it - if you mess up even on one thing, the editor will request a rewrite.
Note: This doesn't just work for DA articles! Associated Content, eHow, and Bukisa articles can also follow this method. It's very effective.
1. Find three to four sources from medical websites (I mostly write health articles). You should have a list of reputable medical websites. My list is eMedicineHealth, University of Iowa, the Mayo Clinic, and NIH's official website. I go to each individual site and type in my topic and quickly skim it. That's it -- research completed in 5-10 minutes.
2. Open up WordPad (do not type in the Demand Studios submission template yet) and write four to five paragraphs about your topic. I mainly do strategy articles, which is a basic tell people what to do, don't get into too much detail. Abouts require more detail, but if you have the right sources, you can pull them from those articles and fill in the details.
3. Make to credit each section you write with your source. Such as "According to the Mayo Clinic, diabetes is a...". Attributing sources helps out the editors and significantly decreases rewrites. Make sure you are using active writing - don't get elaborate, state things clearly! Don't assume the reader knows anything!
4. Paste the sections into the submission template. Write your intro. What works for me is using a statistic in the first sentence - if it is about diabetes, for example, I would write how many people are affected by it. The next sentence summarizes what is discussed in the following sections. End the intro by telling the reader how this article will benefit him or her.
Strategy and Abouts are the easiest to do with this method. How Tos are frankly too much work and I usually avoid it.
Make sure you are familiar with these formats and how to do APA style also - spending several hours learning all of DA's rules will increase your writing speed. Do not skip it - if you mess up even on one thing, the editor will request a rewrite.
Note: This doesn't just work for DA articles! Associated Content, eHow, and Bukisa articles can also follow this method. It's very effective.
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