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Feb

How to Improve Your Grammar for Article Writing Jobs

When we receive a new article writing job, sometimes we are so eager to do the job we may forget to edit for grammar. It happens, but here are ten tips to help you improve your grammar.

Practise makes perfect

The more you write, the better you get, as you keep practising and get more work, you will notice that you naturally improve and have a better sense of how to write things using proper structure and wording,

Keep a record

Having a record of past articles can help you identify where you might have trouble with certain grammar points and can be useful as grammar reference points when you are article writing.

Edit ruthlessly

Sometimes we don’t like to do this, but it helps to do so as least once through as you will catch things that you’ll surprised you wrote.

Use a dictionary

Spell check is great, but it won’t catch a word that is spelled correctly but may have the wrong definition for your purposes.

Be creative

This will help give your articles a flavor that helps you recognize your own work as well as making you a better and more sought after writer.

Proofread

This is an excellent way to be sure you haven’t missed small details, and that your sentences make sense.

Read aloud

This is an excellent exercise, because you will hear things like syntax and tone that you cannot see.

Eliminate clutter

When you are revising your work, remove unnecessary words.

Use specific nouns and verbs.

Using specific words will help you show concretely and clearly what you mean.

Put key words at the end or beginning of a sentence

This will help to ensure the key words are remembered, as they are the most important part of the sentence.

If you use these tips for your next article writing job, then you should begin to see some definite improvements and spotting grammar errors will get easier over time.