Summary From Authority Authoring Thread
Due to the high popularity with the (Just an Author or The Authority?) thread, I figured if you’re short on time, you might benefit from a summary of the tips shared:
- Write about what you know and be aware of the pervading societal viewpoints around your topic (Dina Giolitto)
- Coming from a place of authority is coming from a place of authentic conviction. (Dr. Yukio Strachan Phillips)
- If someone “re-hashes” general subject matter, it is not informative or useful to the readers. (Paul Jerard)
- Deep convictions do not an authority make. There are those who have deep convictions based on faulty logic, leading us to expert idiots. (Ann)
- Anytime I click on an article’s author to see if he/she has more articles I might like I know I am reading an authority’s article. (Rick C. Kern)
- To write from a place of authority, in addition to knowing the subject matter, a writer ought to be able to seduce the reader, with facts, language and style. The degree to which he or she is successful at inter-weaving those three elements, will directly impact their credibility as an authority. (Hermas Haynes)
- “Authoritarian” is also etymologically linked or a derivative of the word “Author.” (Chris Knight)
- (Active = authorative. Passive = unsure.) (Cheryl Wright)
- …You give the reader confidence that you are the expert and authority by presenting the facts intelligently with wit, humor and accuracy. (Robert Ritter)
- …there are 2 kinds of authority – “perceived” authority and “real” authority. Both are important for me to deem someone as a true authority. (Denise Corcoran)
- Personally I prefer people with really good questions. The kind that make you say “Whoa, I never thought about that.” A good question can really provide the opportunity for someone to change. (Kip Winsett
- It’s not up to me to call myself an authority or to use words to sell myself as some authority. This would inflate my ego because personally I long to be recognized. I must curb this tendency and simply do the hard work of study and research in my field and see if I come up with something of help to others. (Strephon Kaplan-Williams)
- What is an authority? Not someone with information only. Someone who can also define the problem for you… (Strephon Kaplan-Williams)
- No matter how “expert” someone is, if their work is littered with spelling and/or grammatical errors, they lose credibility, and the site which promotes their work loses credibility too. (Christine Sutherland)
- The future of EzineArticles is at stake because we must figure out a way to help our readers identify the truly expert content vs. the thinly written non-truly-expert content. (Chris Knight)
- Everyone wants to be thin, but is it unhealthy for your online article marketing endeavors to be too thin? (Lance Winslow)
- The website URL link in the authors resource box is also a very important determinant of the authors authority. The active link in the authors resource box either sells the reader further on the confidence they should have in the author or the lack thereof… (Chris Knight)
- With more visibility to higher stat articles driven by the reader, you will give authors incentives to produce quality articles. (Denise Corcoran)
As for myself I do not try to proclaim myself an expert,or some all knowing authority about anything.I make it a point to try and learn something new every day and if you try hard enough you can,to my point of view anyone who claims to know everything about any given subject has much to learn.
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