Sunday, November 4, 2018

Another subject: Succeeding in writing fact text




From my Finnish blog about environmental questions http://kokonaiskuvat.blogspot.com/2018/11/kirjoittamisessa-onnistumisesta.html

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If one already has skills and insight, then a good text is found from where one has one's own insight, supported by a group of basic skills. One can tell about the meaningfullness of the subject: that subject is fine because... , and connect it with a wider view of the world, and tell based on basic skills the things that are essential for others to learn about the subject, and add a few nice pictures or pieces of stories or interesting observations, like life usually makes fascinating things interesting, but this time pick those that are on a general level, fitted for a wider audience.

Someimes it is difficult to start writing about some subject. Then one can find a right header for the subject, but start it like a tale telling how one came to think about such subject, and so one has described the subject already somehow and can continue to the subject itself.

It is nice to teach the readers skills for life as far as those are not dangerous to others. So it is somewhat like teaching the younger generation in a subject that fascinates oneself."