Top tips for writing a magazine article
The information sourced below was found in : www.englishbiz.co.uk
AUDIENCE
What style of language is appropriate for your reader? Does it need to be formal or informal – even chatty? It will certainly need to capture and hold their attention and this means being lively and interesting. The chances are you will need to be quite formal but use a few ‘chatty’ features carefully chosen and used sparingly.
PURPOSE
What style of writing will achieve the aims of your article? Are you writing to persuade, inform or explain? The Englishbiz pages on these styles will help. (SEE THE LINK BELOW)
GENRE
What style and form of writing is needed to satisfy your reader’s ‘genre expectations’, i.e. what ‘genre conventions’ must you follow to
satisfy your reader’s ‘genre expectations’? Think what you would expect to see and read in such an article: catchy or witty headlines – maybe a pun or play on words, sub-headings to aid clarity and reading, use of bullet points, lists, images, tables, etc.
CONTEXT
Where is it likely to be read? In what situation? What language choices will help here? Often an article is not read ‘in depth’ and at a time
when full concentration is possible. So… a catchy lively style which does not demand too much of your reader and which follows a clear and logical structure is almost certain to be a good choice for many articles
AUDIENCE
What style of language is appropriate for your reader? Does it need to be formal or informal – even chatty? It will certainly need to capture and hold their attention and this means being lively and interesting. The chances are you will need to be quite formal but use a few ‘chatty’ features carefully chosen and used sparingly.
PURPOSE
What style of writing will achieve the aims of your article? Are you writing to persuade, inform or explain? The Englishbiz pages on these styles will help. (SEE THE LINK BELOW)
GENRE
What style and form of writing is needed to satisfy your reader’s ‘genre expectations’, i.e. what ‘genre conventions’ must you follow to
satisfy your reader’s ‘genre expectations’? Think what you would expect to see and read in such an article: catchy or witty headlines – maybe a pun or play on words, sub-headings to aid clarity and reading, use of bullet points, lists, images, tables, etc.
CONTEXT
Where is it likely to be read? In what situation? What language choices will help here? Often an article is not read ‘in depth’ and at a time
when full concentration is possible. So… a catchy lively style which does not demand too much of your reader and which follows a clear and logical structure is almost certain to be a good choice for many articles
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