How to Write an Effective Article for an Unknown Topic
By: Aamir Hussain
Tags: Writing, Self Improvement, Content Writing, Writing Tips, Content Marketing

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Getting an unknown topic for writing an article by your client could be always possible at the table in your office or your computer. If not yet, you could be next if you are blogger or freelance writer. No problem, I got a special solution for your help that you all are already aware of. You read it exactly right, and this incredible method of writing article is called “research”. In this article, I am going to discuss what is research and how it develops a map of ideas in mind to write an article. Generally, the research is finding the information. It helps to visualize ideas for writing and build strong background of topic if conducted in right way. Even though, you are expert in writing and have lot of content on your blogs, you still need to do research to ensure quality project. If considered, the research is basic principle to form proper structure of your article. I will share 5 essential steps to consider in research of any topic for writing article.

1. Use all resources of research

The very first step to do research for writing article is to use all possible means that provides sufficient knowledge about your topic. It could be books, newspapers, different websites, magazines, research papers, etc. It allows you to explore all available information about given topic. The key point here is to get the broad overview of topic. It does not mean that you spend hours in research to find something most accurate. The purpose of using multiple sources is to gather ideas of topic and avoid missing any latest valuable information.

The most important thing you need to understand is that you are required to skim all reading material to extract the required information. Read two sentences of each paragraph of every article, if you feel it covers any valuable information then continue reading same paragraph otherwise move to next one. Don’t think to be too perfect by reading whole lengthy articles as it could be most frustrating at some stage. Your goal is to achieve the overview and get the basic ideas of your topic. Here I give you one bonus strategy to use while browsing for your topic. You could also try to get the latest information on your topic by using google advance research option. Google advance option filters the google results for you so you could explore articles of your own preferences such as articles published in 2020, articles published with authorize domains (www.domain.edu), etc.

2. Find the information gap

The writing is an answer to questions but it always solves the limited proportion of unsolved mystery. The answers can be illustrated in numerous ways. Though already published articles address the depth of knowledge regarding specific topic, the need of additional articles remains always there. You can witness on internet that that all quality articles adequately summarize the required answers. They deliver the answer in very organized way and answer all necessary questions to get filter among other written content on internet. But still there are articles publishing on same topic with different taste of reading.

There is one more thing to notice here that no matter, how many articles (answers) are published each week, the raise of questions is never ending. There is always open room for discussion and argument which transforms into new questions. And this is the most important aspect. You need to identify or generate new questions related to your topic. The information gap refers to part of leftover information which need your dire attention to focus. This part of information is even mentioned in some articles at the end if you are lucky enough to find the one. Enable yourself to extract those questions remain unanswered in other articles and note down for writing your article.

3. Write down key points

By now you got enough ingredients to craft your content for article. Consider to concise till you get pertinent recipe for your content. Here you need to consider your topic and audience as they are very important elements that will help you in trimming to your required material for article. Make notes of all key points. For example, if you are getting topic “Exercises to reduce belly” and client ask you to write all exercise that our gym provides. You started research this topic, you will find plenty of articles addressing different workouts from pushups to yoga. But you need to focus only those methods which are related to equipment’s of gym. Skip all useless things and stick to your topic with requirements. Mention all those methods in your written article that are available in your gym.

4. Start writing your article

Many people spend hours on research before starting out there. Now let me ask is it a wise choice to spend 6 hours on research for writing 500 words? Of course not. If you get a topic of 500 words, one hour of research is wise choice. Don’t assume that you can write articles without thorough research. There are no shortcuts to write except reading and research. There are dozens of blogs out there writing on same topic that you have assigned. So, your content must be unique and effective with required hours of research. Always collect all the information you need before starting the article. But you need to assign proper time to your research. When your time is out, give a break to your research and start writing. Write with confident, don’t worry to stuck in middle of writing. Believe on your writing skills and go on. Now when you started writing, you stuck at some point. No problem, I also got a solution for this problem.

5. Research again

Whether you are writing 4 to 5 paragraphs or long form articles up to 5000 words. In the middle of writing, you get a pause while writing. Feel like ocean of ideas is empty and you need to pour some additional insights of ideas to your draft. Now take advantage of your browsing and search for the specific topic where you stuck. The additional research should be precise and specific to particular spot where you stop writing. Fix a particular time for this step also and gather the information to fill the empty box. Find something useful that lead to bridge the losing path. Let me share another hint for this step. You can give a read to your draft if you are completely loss. This could hint significant assistance to find additional ideas. After you get a complete picture of whole article, move to writing again till your article is finalized.

Conclusion

The article writing requires only two things, read more and write more. This is only strategy to find yourself with other competitors. Reading come with research and research make your written articles worthful. If you spend few hours in quality research, you could write a quality article. Write daily with these rules, you will certainly find positive changes in your article. Finally, I wish you best of luck for your article.