How to Write an Article in English? And Publish, Format, Example, Exercise (step by step guide)

 

Writing an article is not a big deal but writing a good and informative article is an art that you should need to learn. Most frequently asked questions “How to write an article? or how to write a good and informative article? And where can I publish it free and easily?”

If you are finding like these then you have come to the right place. In this article, we are going to discuss how to write an article and publish it?

Before going to start let’s something know about the article.

What is article writing?

The article is a special type of writing; it’s a piece of writing or content written for a large audience.  Usually, an article is published in a newspaper, magazine, or journal or in these days’ blogs for guiding a large audience on a specific topic or subject. The article can relate to the interest of the writer or the current issues.

There are three sections of article writing that you most need to know about it.

1.  Simple, legible and should be easy to understand.

Write simple, legible content for the

2.  Not too long, it should be concise

3.  Coherent or write in a logical order

Article Writing Format:

·      Headline or Title

·      Content: It is subdivided into three sections or parts.

1.  Introduction

2.  Body

3.  Conclusion

 

Headline/title: make it catchy and attractive and keep it short (but, sometimes you will need to work on long-tail keywords). Stuck at the point and be focused on the target “What is the article is about?”  Not put many details and make it too long, it can make your article illegible.

For example:

·      How can we start content writing and earn? Or

·      How to Become a Content Writer and Get Paid?

Try to entertain:

·      Use subtitles

·      Work with numbers and the bullet points

·      And most important, focus on your topic theme

    (Means you have to draw the reader in)

For example:

How to become a content writer and Get Paid?

Being a newbie I wasn’t know how to write and haven’t any idea about it, but I wanna start content writing and earn.

How you can learn content writing

………………….

5 coherent steps that can help you to become a content writer

1…..

2……

3……

4……

5……

How to write an article or blog post and publish?

……………..

 

Take care of the introduction and the ending.

 

Tie the end to the beginning

 

Note: don’t put unrelated ideas or content in your articles/blog posts. Use simple and casual informal language.

Content:

How to write content for any article or blog post?

Introduction: writing the first 2-3 lines of the content about what is the theme or the topic is?

Body: the main part of the content which carries the weightage of makers. Usually, it consists of at least 3-4 paragraphs.

Conclusion: the last paragraph of the content or article

How to write an article or blog post?

Let’s start writing, so finally, we are going to write an article or blog post that will help you to write your article or blog post.

Topic, Headline or Title: “What is freelancing? Types of Freelancing jobs, its advantages, and disadvantages of becoming a freelancer”

After selection of the topic, we will write our first paragraph of the article that can engage readers to this article and encourage them to read our article fully or till the end as we discussed before write short and attractive. Try to give the answer, solution, or some conclusion of the topic or an overview that can help you to drive the audience into the article. Try to write catchy for this you can go to the Google or read the articles online. 

·     Introduction:

First paragraph:

Freelancing is an ideal job and a career for many people and they want to become a freelancer but how to become a freelancer? There are many things that need be to learn and know about it before starting a journey of freelancing.

As a newbie or novice, if you didn’t know anything about freelancing such as what is freelancing? What are the advantages or disadvantages, types of freelancing, what kind of freelancing you need to start and what kind of freelancing will match with your skills, and many more? If you have these kinds of questions and you wanna know, so you have got to the right place.

·      Body of the content:

This is the most essential part of the content that makes your article more powerful, valuable, or unuseful. So write well and informative you can go to the research.

Write definition: if you are talking about something like what is freelancing, what is content writing, or what is copywriting? Or, how to become a freelancer? How to become a content writer? If you are writing such a topic like this or if your topics are starting with what is…? So, write definition first and describe it in simple words that can easily people understand or relate, you can also add some examples, quotes.

As our topic is “What is freelancing? Who is freelancer, Types Freelancing jobs, its advantages and disadvantages of becoming a freelancer”

So, we have to cover the following topics:

·       What is Freelancing?

·       Who is freelancing?

·       Types of freelancing jobs

·       Advantages and disadvantages freelancing

What is Freelancing?

Freelancing is a job performed by freelancers, the means of freelancing is to work as an independent company or individual rather than employed by someone else. It’s a basically contract base job.

Who is freelancer?

Freelancers or freelance worker is a person who is self-employed who earns money by using their skills and offering their services to multiple clients. They referred to as independent contractors. Freelancers are responsible for their all sorts of thing rather than traditional employees are not.

They hired by other companies on a part-time/full-time basis or for short term and long-term projects. Freelancers are usually earning money on a per-hour basis or daily rates for their work. They can work in almost any service-based industry like language translation, or consulting.

Types of freelance jobs:

There are many freelancers’ jobs are available but the most common jobs are within the creative industries:

·       Content writing

·       Graphic designing

·       Data entry work

·       Website development

·       Copywriting

·       Mobile app development

·       Digital marketing

·       Web designer

·       Photograpger

·       Editing and proofreading

·       Transcription

·       Virtual assistant

·       Online tutor

Advantages and Disadvantages of freelancing

If you are thinking about to becoming a freelancer it is important to know the pros and cons of freelancing.

6 Advantages being a freelancer

1.   You are your own boss: as own your boss, you are responsible for all sorts of work. As a freelancer, you get to decide which projects you will take in and also you can show any rude customer the door.

 

2.   You can work whenever you want: you can also choose to work whenever you want such as in a coffee shop, park or in a garden, hotel, or while you are on the vacation in Pakistan.

You can’t longer stick in an office or even in the home; find a place in which you can work best. It could be your living room, library, or garden.

3.   Flexible working hours: as a freelancer, you can work whenever you want. You get to choose your own working hours. Being a freelancer you can work during your most productive hours and those hours do not have to fall in during regular business hours.

4.   Get to keep all the profits: in the world of freelancing another advantage is you can keep all profit that stemming from your labor.

5.   Control of your workload: another benefit of freelancing is that you can choose your workload. You can choose work as much as or as the title as you want and also can choose or bid on the projects that are meaningful to you.

6.   Freedom of clients and projects: when you work as a freelancer you can choose the clients with whom you want to work. If you do not mesh well with the clients’ personality/ payment philosophies, can pass on an opportunity and wish them the best.  They also have the ability to work with many clients/ only a few selected clients at the same time.

6 Disadvantages being a freelancer

1.   Lack of benefits: As an independent contractor, you will have to face this disadvantage, there many companies offer benefits to their employees like insurance and pension plans, but in freelancing freelancers are responsible for their benefits.

2.   Health issues: when you start working and make money almost 24/7 without rest you have serious health issues, because you are stuck at the spot to take complete your tasks. Most commonly, backbone pain, stress, vitamin D deficiency. So, don’t do it overdo, it may increase your

3.   Lack of job security: there isn’t guaranteed work in freelancing, work comes from different projects or clients. Here you will not be contracted to the client(s)

4.   Cash flow issues (Not getting paid, Scammers): One of the more worrisome issues is the cash flow issues. Freelancers can set their own fees to meet the income (and their client's) needs. They are also responsible for collecting their payments.

It is fairly common in freelancing; there are many ways to protect yourself from non-paying clients, or scammers but sometimes you won’t realize that you are at risk until it’s too late.

5.   Freelancer’s tax: In freelancing, you are responsible for paying self-employed taxes.

6.   More responsibility: being your boss you are responsible for your actions, there you will responsible for each and everything. Such as work quality, collecting payments, and client satisfaction regarding work.

·     Conclusion:

So, after body we will write a conclusion of the article don’t forget to write this part of the article it’s a most essential part of the article that you need to write. In this part, you will conclude the article or sum up.  

Conclusion: freelancing jobs are contract base jobs performed by freelancers. In freelancing, clients hire freelancers for work or to complete some particular tasks. A freelancer is a self-employed person and contractor who gives services and gets contracts from clients, companies, and organizations as their work and complete their tasks by following the deadlines.

There are many types of freelancing jobs such as copywriting, content writing, graphic designing, translating the languages, ebook writing, data entry, virtual assistant services, and social media marketing.

 There are also some Pros and cons of freelancing that you need to know is you want to become a freelancer Pros: keep all profit, own your boss, flexible working hours, freedom of clients and projects, control workload. Cons: lack of benefits, health issues, no job security, cash flow issues, freelancer’s tax, and last but not the least more responsibilities.

So, now we have completed our article and now we need to publish it, but where can we publish this beautiful article?

Don’t worry about it there some way that can we follow to publish our good and informative article.

If you wanna become a writer or wanna become a blogger you will need to write articles for your blog or sample work to show to get some work it’s needed.

• ·      Use blogger.com
• ·      Or you can choose also wordpress.com
• ·      Publish your article on medium.com

If you wanna start your own blog as a beginner free you can go through blogger.com where you can create your own blog and publish your articles easily and you can use these articles also as your sample work to get hire as a content writer or article writer.

And you can also choose wordpress.com to create a blog but there is you will need to have a domain name and the hosting which is another topic to talk about or discuss but now we are not going to, and if we will talk it will be too long.

So, if you wanna know about it more you can go to the google and search about it easily or you can use youtube to get some info about WordPress such as “How to make a blog on WordPress or wordpress.com” or “How to make a blog on WordPress for free”

But, if you wanna start your journey as a beginner or novice content writer and you wanna make some sample work to get hired as a content writer/ article writer, you can go through medium.com. It’s a nice way to make a sample work to show to the clients for getting hired.

Here is sample work that we write you can check: What is Freelancing? Types of freelancing jobs, its advantages and disadvantages of becoming a freelancer