Content Writing Lesson 1: Extracting Key Ideas from An Article

Before you write your first article for the web, take a little while to identify what online articles are made of.
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What are the important things you understand from the article?


As in case of school essays, each paragraph of an article is an expansion of one or two ideas. Before you start writing an article, I'll tell you how you can extract key ideas or important points from an already written article.

Activity:

1.   Go to EzineArticles.com
2.   Select an article on a topic you like
3.   List the important points mentioned in the article

This activity is very simple. Just write down the important ideas the article tries to convey.

Here I pick a random article as an example,

• The article is 431 words long.
• It talks about business travel.
• It mainly gives four tips to business travelers.
• And, the four key ideas are:

Research the place beforehand to maximize productivity
Pack light. Heavy luggage hinders your movement.
Be nice to locals (for specific reasons)
Meet people you know (directly or through social media)

Well, that was a very easy article to start with. The key points are numbered and listed. Now, if you are serious about getting started in content writing, do the same with at least 5 articles.

And, the second lesson will come in a couple of days.


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