Article Writing and Editing - Tips To Improve Both


by Jeff Schuman - Date: 2007-04-14 - Word Count: 426 Share This!

Editing an article should come after you have wrote it. Many people do not do a good job of editing. In this article we will take about writing and editing and how to do a better job of improving both.

Editing your article is not the same as writing it. If writing does not come natural to you editing can really slow you down. The more time you spend editing the less time you spend writing and that is just the opposite of what you want to do.

So what you do is you start typing and you edit when you are finished. If you use a handy little tool like Article Notepad you can type your whole article without ever being shown that you are misspelling a word. When you are done you can go back and proofread to make sure you have not left any words out.

Then go to Spellcheck.net and paste your article in and spell check it. Doing it this way will help you keep your emphasis on the quality of the words in your article and not on your ability to type and spell.

We like to say write like you speak. Do you start and stop in the middle of all of your sentences. Probably not, but writing and editing is just like doing that. Now if you are not very strong in English for example you will want to run a Grammar check when you are done as well.

Grammarcheck.com offers free newsletter to help you learn to write better using correct grammar. For less than $100 Whitesmoke.com offers a tremendous program for writing, editing and checking the grammar of your articles.

You can improve your medical writing, business writing, legal writing, creative writing, or get an executive package that includes it all. Whitesmoke.com offers an instant access download to help you start writing and editing right away.

Here is the most important point of this article. To be a better writer you need to practice. If you spend more time editing then you do writing you are short changing yourself and your ability to grow as a writer.

This is not to say that editing is not important. An article full of spelling and grammar errors loses it's credibility. You need to make your article presentable. Only then will it be read with an open mind and provide the attention you intended it bring.

Writing and editing, as you can see from these tips, should not be combined. Your article writing will improve if you let your creative juices flow before you edit your next masterpiece.


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