Things Writers Must Avoid In Their Articles To Retain Their Jobs

Like I have mentioned before in my previous posts, the beautiful thing about online writing jobs is that there is always a huge opportunity for continuity. Job givers usually have loads of article writing work to do.

Therefore, a writer’s major quest should be to ensure that their clients retain their services after they have successfully completed the first job. Please note that your performance in your very first job for a client is crucial to your continued working for that client ad you should therefore give it your very best.

Unfortunately, a lot of writers are not able to keep their contract longer than their first job assignment. This is not because they are not good writers or they don’t care about giving their best, but because they inadvertently include certain things in their writings which make them of low standard and repulsive to the job giver.

Here are the things your articles should not contain when writing for clients so as to keep your writing job contract:

Don’t use “big big words”. What I mean is that you should use common words in your articles so that readers can easily understand and enjoy your articles [except of course you are writing articles of technical nature].

This is very important to webmasters, because if you write articles that have serious vocabularies here ad there, that will cause readers to start looking for a dictionary to be able to find their meanings, such writings would be uninteresting and visitors to your client’s website may immediately leave, and the articles would not have achieved the purpose for which the webmaster paid for. Therefore, the job giver may not have another option than to terminate your writing service.

Don’t use street slang words that your readership may not be familiar with. Remember you are writing for a global audience or for a specific audience of your client’s choice who may not be familiar with your own street slang words. If they don’t understand the meaning you are trying to convey in your article from the slang words you used, your writing may become boring and they may exit the website.

Be careful not to over use commas. When commas are over used in articles, they spoil the flow of the articles and make them uninteresting.

Avoid being exact with information. Statistics may change and would therefore render your information incorrect by the time your articles may be used. Also, the source of your information may not be accurate. For these reasons, in order for your writings to remain relevant and useful to the job giver for a long time, it is better for you to avoid stating exact figures in your articles. Use the words “approximately”, “about”, “more than”, “less than”, etc to express your statistical information.

Be sure of your information, don’t guess at anything. You should only use information you are sure about in your articles. You can quote the source of your information, but don’t ever guess them and think the job giver will not be able to find out. They may very well do and that could cause you to lose a good writing job contract.

Don’t plagiarize. I have purposely left this for the last because I want to stress its importance. Some writers don’t think it is possible for job givers to find out if they simply copied other people’s work on the same topic from a different website. So after securing a job, these writers go about searching for articles they can just copy and paste for their clients and get paid.

But unknown to them, job givers are not fools, they are very much on their guide to ensure they don’t fall victim of this scam. Let me tell you why job givers are very particular about not getting a copyrighted article from a writer.

1. They don’t want to get into legal trouble with the original owners of the work. Been careless about checking the originality of the articles they receive from their writers could cause them huge loses in terms of their reputation and money when they are sued by the copyright owners.
2. Using an article that has been used before on another website will be useless to the job giver if their purpose is to use the article to increase their rating with search engines. This is because search engines only rate the website that used the article first.

Considering the enormous loses job givers may incur for accepting someone’s articles from a dubious writer, it is common for job givers to ask you to allow them some time to check and approve your work before you are paid. They will then use a software program, e.g. Copyspace, to check if your writing is an original article or not.