An Article Content Must Be Useful

Online content should be informative and easy to read.

Articles are documents written for the benefit of readers, our audience. They are used in businesses, magazines, newspapers, well, all kinds of printed materials.

Writing an article is different from other kinds of writing.  Online, "content" writing has been a buzz word. Whether it is traditional printed form or online writing, it's essential that intended readers (audience) are kept in mind. The content of an article is meant to provide valuable information.

Basically, and briefly, an article is outlined in a similar manner, irrespective of the topic or subject matter. 

1. Research and learn as much about the topic

An article needs to be researched and learned as much as possible. Resources can be books, Internet, magazines, journals, about anything found related to the topic. The more data gathered and compiled, the easier to write the article, the better the article outcome.

2. Organize the Content

It is important that reader is clear about the purpose of the article. An informative explanation of the article topic should be provided from the beginning. Definitions for some topics may be necessary.

Following up on the topic needs details, including facts and figures, and if needed, specific examples and illustrations are provided. In fact, anything the informed writer feels is noteworthy warrants content inclusions.

3. Write the Article

A content writer keeps in mind that his/her main purpose is to inform and see to it that the information is useful to the intended readers.

The writer summarizes the researched information of the topic gist putting together an article in a generalized form.

A content article is one that is, and should be, useful to intended readers.

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Earth Day 2014 Explores Planet Earth's Chemistry

Earth Day 2014:  April 22

Happy Earth Day 2014!  Celebrate the Earth's birthday by exploring the chemistry of our planet Earth.

Earth Day’s a good time to take a moment to appreciate our planet, and the variety of elements and compounds within.  With an atmosphere containing 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, the Earth is the only planet in the solar system capable of initiating and sustaining life-forms; the various chemical elements that make up the Earth, from the crust, down to the mantle and core, have a little something to do with that.




Related Articles:  (Note: Apology. Decoded Science is now close, the website where I published the articles below. I'll check if I can find my drafts. July 22, 2023.) 

• Earth Chemistry at a Glance for Earth Day

• Mother Earth or Mother nature - a Woman Image 

 

(c) April 2014. Updated July 22, 2023. Tel. Inspired Pen Web. All rights reserved.  

How to Collect Information

Simple writing tips how you can collect information

I particularly wrote this post for a writer-friend who recently ask ways how to collect information. Of course it's not only writers who collect information. There's a simple planning process in collecting information made easy.  But as a freelance writer who writes numerous articles on different subjects, I find it much easier to plan how I'll gather my information, both offline and online.

Although I still research and gather my info the old traditional way of a spiral notepad for short info and a handy micro cassette recorder for later playback, I'm aware we also now have the handy iPad at our finger tips. And so too, I use my iPhone for easy brief notes. But when iPhone wasn't available then, I lost capturing lots of thoughts simply because I'd tended to forget having a handy small notepad for emergency back up. My palm pilot was never really that handy. 

Plan your data and info gathering and follow this basic list:

1.  Identify the topic or subject of your research.

2.  Decide what you need to develop your subject.

3.  List down #2 as sub-headings.

4.  Jot down what you already know about your topic, no matter how little you do.

5.  Brainstorm what you know.

6.  Relate #5 with the sub-headings in your list. See if you can group them together.  Soon you will find out that some sub-headings have no entries at all, which means you will need to collect more information for those sub-headings.

7. Clinch your information gathering plan by asking yourself:  "What else do I need to know?"  Who? What? When? How? and Why? are always great extended questions.

The planning process can sometimes lead us to make changes to our sub-headings. It's fine. As long as we follow through the process.

MDMA Ecstacy Drug Invention

The love drug MDMA known as "Ecstacy"

MDMA is an entactogenic drug of the phenethylamine and amphetamine class of drugs.  It is a colorless oil that boils at around 155 degrees Celsius or 311 degrees Fahrenheit. In chemical parlance, MDMA is referred to as MDMA (3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine) or Methylenedioxymethamphetamine.

MDMS / Ecstacy

In popular culture, MDMA has become widely known as "ecstasy" ("E" or "X"), usually referring to its street pill form.   The terms "molly" or "mandy" ("M") can colloquially refer to MDMA in crystalline or powder form.

Mozart Violin Sonata No. 26 in B-Flat major, K. 378

Classical Music / Sonata for Violin and Piano, K. 378

Violin and piano sonata No. 26 in B-flat major, K. 378 (K. 317d) by Mozart, interpreted by Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) and Lambert Orkis (piano).

Wolfgang A. Mozart composed more than a dozen or so sonatas for piano and violin. He started writing them in the 1760s (he wasn't even a teenager) and continued writing them in 1781, the year he left Salzburg and moved to Vienna, never to return to his city of birth. Some of these sonatas include the six Mannheim Sonatas of 1778, and Mozart's four glorious late works during the mid- and late 1780s.





Violin and Piano Sonata No. 26 in B-flat major, K. 317d (formerly K. 378), comes from the 1781 set. Some biographers seem to think that the piece might have been composed two years earlier, that is, in 1779, while he was still in Salzburg.

Rachmaninoff and Busoni

Classical Music Composer Datebook:  April 1

Same-birthday Composers: Sergey Rachmaninoff and Ferruccio Busoni

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Russian composer and piano virtuoso Sergei (Sergey) Rachmaninoff (Rachmaninov) was born on April 1, 1873 (Old Style: March 20, 1873). He was a conductor of the late Romantic period and whose works are among the most popular in the Romantic repertoire.  Born into a musical family, Rachmaninoff took up the piano at age four. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1892 although he already composed several piano and orchestral pieces. He entered a four-year depression and composed little until successful therapy allowed him to complete his famous Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1901. For the next sixteen years, Rachmaninoff conducted at the Bolshoi Theatre, relocated to Dresden, Germany, and toured the United States for the first time. Here's a link to the profoundly heartwarming Piano Concerto No. 3 interpreted by Martha Argerich from an earlier post. 

Composer Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Italian composer and also a piano virtuoso in his time, Ferrucio Busoni was born on April 1, 1866. Busoni's Operas include:  Arlecchino (Harlequin or The windows), 1914-1916, Doktor Faust, 1916-1924 (Completed by Jarnach after Busoni's death) and Turandot, 1917.  Below is a performance of  Busoni's Doktor Faust, with Philippe Jordan, conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House. Doktor Faust – Thomas Hampson. Mephistopheles – Gregory Kunde.





Resource:

Sadie, Stanley, Ed.  The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music, New Updated Edition.  London: Macmillan, 1994.


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