Magazine Writing

Lesson 4: Writing and Submitting Your Article

This last lesson concerns editing and submitting your article. Many beginners hate editing and re-writing, and, admittedly, it is difficult. It can be hard to part with phrases and paragraphs with which you are especially pleased, however editing is probably the most important part of the whole process. It can make the difference between acceptance and rejection.

If you like this course, you may like to do another writing course:

Introduction and Objectives

Email has made the submission process much faster and easier. However, as many editors don’t accept articles sent in this way, often writers have to use the old ‘snail mail’ system. Sometimes the Writer’s Guidelines will tell you exactly how to submit your article. In this case, just follow them. The article should look professional. There are no rigid rules, however, on the submission process. A perfectly typed article without spelling or grammatical errors, presented on white A4 paper, will, at least look good.

After this lesson you should be able to edit and submit your articles professionally. The resources that I will use are the two recommended books.

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