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RESEARCH AND WRITING MANUAL FOR ACADEMIC FREELANCE WRITERS

Prepared by Levian Indasy Mahmady & Baba Elinyo as a partial fulfilment of our utilitarian aid of training freelance writers

©Developed by Levian Indasy Mahmady & Baba Elinyo, August 2014

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PART 1 CONTENT Content entails the requirements in the rubric or order instructions. This is the most important order element that one must keep in mind to excel in this online “oil
industry. First, a writer should be able to digest the order instructions for some minutes. Second, the writer should develop an intrinsic critical thinking whenever he or she comes across order instructions. Failure to critically approach the instructions can make a newbie spend the whole day in agony. It usually results in late submission of orders and heavy penalties to the writer. Therefore, CONTENT is very important if you want to rise through the ranks and get to the top as fast as possible. Illustration Question: ‘write a 10 page paper on the United States
The above instructions can run a spasm of fear across the spine of a newbie for lack of comprehensive content. Therefore, to make it easier, one needs to develop the table of contents (outline) on the same. PLEASE DON’T BE SUBJECTIVE IN REASONING. BE OBJECTIVE AND AVOID MASS FALLACY. Most newbies will be like, “the united states is a very good country with a lot of opportunities. The country is big and has everything that an individual needs to survive. The current president is Obama. His father is Kenyan and the mother is American. Kenyans want to associate themselves with him although he does not want them. America is all over in the mainstream media because...” Such content is very shallow, incoherent, absurd and subjective. You should think critically outside the box and instantly create an outline that uses topical organization rather than ©Developed