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Here is a sample format for an article.

Heading

—Byline (a line introducing the writer and the subject)
1. Introduction
Grab attention
State the idea
2. Body
Build points
Develop ideas
Support main claim

3. Conclusion
Re-emphasise the main idea

Follow these steps for writing an article.

1. Get to know your audience

Decide who you are writing for before proceeding with planning or writing
an article.
2. Identify the needs of your readership

What do your readers need to know? How does your own knowledge match up
against the information they need?

3. Be unique
Try to be unique in how you approach the material. This will draw your readers in
and keep them coming back for more.

y Write about your topic in a way that no one has ever written about it before.
You can take a different tone, a more visual approach, or any number of other
methods of altering the material.

y Bring new ideas to the topic. Make suggestions or offer information that other
people don’t have.

4. Be passionate
You should care about the topic you choose to write about. Your enthusiasm
will show in your writing and it will be much more engaging for your readers.
You may even be able to make them care about something they did not know,
or care about something they have studied previously, like current affairs or
historical events.

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