Senin, 13 Februari 2012

How To Write A How To

This article tells you how to write, skills you can bring in almost any area and turn into hard, cold cash also advertise their skills to the next job you get, even if it is not written. I made ​​a lot of money teaching people how to do things for decades, and I never saw all the elements of good writing in one place. Instead, they studied the most popular, effective and successful examples and came up with a short set of principles. It was pulled out of Applied Psychology, wildly popular products from companies like Apple and Microsoft, and low-key sales techniques.

promise. Deliver it. Explain what is meant

There is a reason your English teacher did not earn money as a writer. It does not have to worry about wasting precious vrijeme.Izreka people say that you should tell them what you will say, tell, and tell them what you said. Bull. Here's what you should really do.

  • They promise that you will improve your life and how you do it
  • Show them a little, step by step
  • tell them what it meant

1 I promise that you will improve your life and how

that promise to solve the problem, often one that will be painful. So instead of telling people you are going to explain how to install WordPress, you tell them that you will learn how to turn off your webmaster and instantly create a web page can be maintained.

Keep this as short as you would like to be

Keep it as short as possible. Even if you are paid to write the word, do not treat your work that way. People do not have time for anything more. Solve the problem as quickly as you can, without leaving anything. Write short, punchy sentences without too many commas, colons or commas. Avoid big words. Your English language they liked. Your readers just get upset.

Using the Rule 5

People can not keep more than 3-5 things at once. Write your parts in groups of 3 or 5 maybe 7 at most. All sequences with more than 7 items that perform or remember at one time likely to be restructured.

Start Selling

Suppose that they do not know how they are here. Sometime in the first paragraph, which orient the user is sent here by someone else, explaining what they will learn why this is a good thing. May You think that because you are here, have a good reason. You are wrong. May they have landed on some other recommended websites. They May Have handed printed document is the boss and you are not sure what to do.

to make them feel good about reading what you write. This includes making them comfortable from the first paragraph, and they may not be comfortable if you are constantly wondering why they are here. The best sellers are known not to push their product or service is down the throats of their customers, but to explain clearly what the problem is and how it can be solved with what they sell. And in today's world, everyone is selling. You must always be alert to branding yourself and your employer.

2 Show them a little step by step

Before you start writing, jot down each step you need to cover in a separate line or paragraph. Then go through the process themselves, and add whatever you have left. Start each section with a summary of what you'll learn in this area and how it fits into the bigger picture. Break as part of the separate steps.

bullet in the head ... Ing.

Bullets are your friend. Headings are your friend. People do not read these days. They scan. (By the way, is correct, the original meaning of the scan counter is used to used to mean a detailed, complete consumption of materials - .. Just like the scanner but it's not how it is used more, so I'm reluctant to go with the flow.) Readers will automatically jump to the title on the title before you do any actual reading.

Your writing teacher probably wanted to write a huge undifferentiated mass of text. It is rich in Dickens - which for fifty years. Get with the program. Titles (line of text extracted from the material using a variety of sizes, letters, or type style) to help the reader to ignore what is not important and dive right in what he does.

Here's how to use the title. Anytime you have a safe-contained concept, probably deserves the title, plus, where it forms a sentence in a paragraph summing up the concept. Depending on the degree of difficulty, You May also want to explain why knowing that the concept will help the reader. Most word processor documents or online editors like Google Docs have a control that allows you to choose Heading 1, Heading 2, and so on. Use them whenever possible. They are usually converted to HTML special instructions when posted on the web. These instructions help the search engines and your human readers to decide what to emphasize.

rule for the use of bullets is a simple and widely ignored. Use one-by-step or the relevant concept. So instead of saying so, which is actually three steps:

Put the grated carrots in a pot of boiling water

You would break the steps into the way people expect to happen:

  • Start a pot of water boiling
  • grid as carrots
  • drop them in boiling water

As the title of bullets to help cement the concepts together in people's minds. More importantly, when the reader is referred to what you write because it did not quite understand something, they can jump directly to the bullets and follow along. Not forcing them to read a lot just to find its place saves your mental energy to complete their task.

3 Tell them what it meant

This is perhaps my only original contribution to the whole enterprise of writing. Your teacher was wrong about sažetku.Sažetak not tell your readers what you said. Duh, they just read it, but know what you said! Instead, we should tell them what it means and how their lives are better for knowing what they just learned. Therefore, it should explain how good the initial promise. It's hard.

is easy to say: "We have learned how to install WordPress on your website, write blog posts and creation of Web pages." Instead, say something like: "It is no longer possible for one person to create complex web pages maintained by zero. WordPress makes it all the hard parts for you, and makes nothing of adding a blog to a new part is not difficult from the word processor. There is still much to learn , but this set of articles show you everything you need to get a credible website built in a day. Do not forget to update it frequently for security purposes, and see our next series of articles if you want to learn how to create a calendar event, or back up, so you will not lose important data at the worst possible moment. "

In an increasingly complex world, all you need to explain: manuals, sales materials, web sites and to establish such bodies. Words are more important than ever, and these same concepts can be applied to the video learning previše.Organizacija, promise and fulfillment of promises to remain constant regardless of the medium.

Speaking of which:

Summary of all up front, smash things to pieces, use short declarative sentences, and embrace the shot. You can not go wrong if you wrote that you follow these principles. Even better: everything you have written proof that you are an expert in your field, and will show you your next boss that your knowledge is so deep that you can write to it better than anyone else, what better reason to hire?

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