Have an outline ready that has four to six points that you need to cover before you begin. You can make this list into headings for each paragraph to help you stay on topic.

Remember to support your thesis statement at all times. If you don’t there is no way to solve any problem for your reader.

To help stay on topic keep the paragraphs at about three normal length sentences. Avoid one long sentence that looks like a paragraph on its own; they drag on and on, and sometimes make no sense. It is much more dramatic if you stick in a few really short sentences.

Use your outline to write your paragraphs.

Make sure your points stick to the thesis, and your sub points need to be on topic as well, you will find that it is easy to drift off, but that will bore your readers. Be sure to be brief and convincing, it helps to include examples.

Revise to tighten

Keep your article tight, leave out the stories, keep the examples short, and avoid repeating yourself. Use exciting verbs instead of the “is” and “and” forms. If you don’t keep it upbeat, your readers will become uninterested and leave.

-Clear it up with bullets

-Lose the quotes and stories

-Lose the -ly adverbs/adjectives, use a picture or feeling power verbs and nouns

-Get rid of the unnecessary words such as “that”

-Use words that are one or two-syllables. It helps make things clear

To bring it all to an understandable ending, keep it down to one or two sentences. If you keep it all short and to the point, more people are likely to pass it on.