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Hello,
I have an online magazine about a tech related subject. I have 1-2 writers helping me as freelance writers. What I do is, i search the web for good news or products to write about. and then I email them the worthy subjects or products to write about – mostly in the form of another news entry somewhere else to tell them what the subject is.
then I want them to write an original article in their own words, by using any necessary (preferably official site or video or press release etc) source. They are even sometimes required to email and ask for photos and info from the source, by using my company email I gave to them…
It is fine up to that point and the system is working. (you can comment about up to here too by the way)
But after that, I am not always able to get high quality and easily understandable articles. So I came up with a fool proof formula – I hope -. Please tell me if I make sense.. here is what I will do:
I will prepare a question list… a check list that they will need to go through each and every time. What is the subject (or product), a brief description, who did it, where, when, why, how, what are benefits etc… and then I want them to combine the answers to these questions in good writing format. These should be the first 1-2 paragraphs of what they should write. And then add a little more relevant info if they think necessary. And I will limit them to 500 words, to prevent them including unnecessary info, as 95% of the time, the things in my subject can be described within this word limit.
This is what I am planning to do.
Do I make sense? What is your opinion about this? what else would you suggest?
I have an online magazine about a tech related subject. I have 1-2 writers helping me as freelance writers. What I do is, i search the web for good news or products to write about. and then I email them the worthy subjects or products to write about – mostly in the form of another news entry somewhere else to tell them what the subject is.
then I want them to write an original article in their own words, by using any necessary (preferably official site or video or press release etc) source. They are even sometimes required to email and ask for photos and info from the source, by using my company email I gave to them…
It is fine up to that point and the system is working. (you can comment about up to here too by the way)
But after that, I am not always able to get high quality and easily understandable articles. So I came up with a fool proof formula – I hope -. Please tell me if I make sense.. here is what I will do:
I will prepare a question list… a check list that they will need to go through each and every time. What is the subject (or product), a brief description, who did it, where, when, why, how, what are benefits etc… and then I want them to combine the answers to these questions in good writing format. These should be the first 1-2 paragraphs of what they should write. And then add a little more relevant info if they think necessary. And I will limit them to 500 words, to prevent them including unnecessary info, as 95% of the time, the things in my subject can be described within this word limit.
This is what I am planning to do.
Do I make sense? What is your opinion about this? what else would you suggest?