WRITING AN ARTICLE

An opinion article, as the very name suggests, mainly reflects the author's opinion about a particular subject.

Steps to follow:

1) Analyse the task: who is going to read the article? It will be decisive in order to choose a style and the kind of information to be included.

2) Brainstrom and Organise your ideas. This crucial steps are disgracefully skipped by most students. If you don't know what to say and in which order, you are likely to fail in cohesion.

3) Write you article in paragraphs. Remember to make your writing more interesting by using a variety of adjectives. Don't forget your linkers and connectors! Introduce the topic, expand the different ideas and finish the piece with a final conclusion to give a sense of completion.


Go to 'Writing' for a more accurate explanation on how to write an article, well as to see some models.

And finally, remember you have homework! You have to write an article in about 150-170 words on the advantatges and disadvantatges of smartphones, page 120 of our student's book.