In my last blog, I finished with the
promise to have a word with you that why your articles gets rejected. What are the ways to avoid rejections of your
efforts? Simply, when a person is making
effort with his/her brain and pen, there are chances of
making many mistakes. This is natural too.
These mistakes may be either of grammar, language flow, logic
arrangements, explanation of thoughts any many more. Remember that if your article reaches till
readers with silly mistakes, it creates a confusion regarding the originality
of your writing.
I am discussing the scenario, in which your
article is not thoroughly checked at client’s end and published. This situation is troublesome for readers as
well as for the concerned client too.
Your mistakes may create the bad reputation point for you both. If your
articles are rejected, your client will set aside your profile and assign the
job to other content writers.
Now understand that the possible reasons of
rejection and their solution.
Reason
1: Grammatical errors
Grammar is the weapon that makes your
content readable in proper manner. If
your thoughts are arranged in logical way, you used vocabulary of better
standard, terminology of your content is good but you have made some of the
mistakes in using grammar, definitely you will face losses. Such mistake will mar all your efforts and
your article will be disliked. Correct
usage of grammar shows that you have better knowledge of English and able to
grab the attention of your reader on a given subject. Grammatical errors show that you have made
your efforts casually.
Solution
It is advisable to use active voice in
framing of sentences. Often, it has been
experienced that freelancers make errors while narrating in passive voice. Keep
in mind that your sentences are clear.
They are not too long or too short and able to transfer the meaning to
readers. Please ensure that your words
are transferring the same meaning to readers as you want. Punctuation should be
used at correct places.
Reason
2: Casual research work
Many often, it has been seen that content
writers do their work with their experience only and not with the latest
research on subject. If you are given
with the subject on “Localities with
Amenities” and expected to reveal some of the information that helps
readers, but you have not researched properly and submitted your article. It means, readers will move to some other
article and won’t take interest in your writing. In case you revealed some details in your
article but ignored that something has been happened recently on the subject,
your article won’t generate traffic.
Nobody wants to waste time on the content which is providing false
information.
Solution
Always take every subject as purely unknown
to you. This will inspire you to make
some researches. It is better to write
updates on any subject. Your readers will consider that you are providing
latest information to them and in turn your article will get more attention. Even if you are having deep knowledge of the
subject but always think that you got the subject for very first time and give
updated information.
Reason
3: Use of web tools for content creation
This is one of the reasons of rejection of
your articles. It has been seen that to
make money, writers use some web tools like spinning tools, translation tools
and some other tools to create an article without any serious effort. By doing this, they save their time and make
more articles but ultimately this leads to rejection of contents. Remember that spinning tool merges the
contents in such a way that totally make it meaningless. Translation tools just provide transliteration
and not the correct grammatical flow.
Solution
You must write your own thoughts. Of course, you can research from the web,
take help from the contents already available on the subject but every sentence
should be your own. Remember that tools
cannot replace your skills. The way you explain yourself, is not possible by
machines.
As conclusion, I can say that following
above mentioned tips; you can save your articles from rejection and cement your
seat in this field. Proof reading is one
of the most important aspects before final submission of your article. There
may be mistakes, it is natural but proof reading is like looking mirror that
gives you a chance to add some beauty points on your face.
I will elaborate some more points of
article rejection and their solutions. Till then, keep writing.