5) Writing Fresh Content For 7 Cups: Guidelines

@SoulfullyAButterfly

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thanks

@SoulfullyAButterfly

Hi soul. Thank you for sharing this with us. Have a few questions:

1. For any facts or studies quoted, please provide sources as footnotes/listed at the end of your article - does this involve referencing and if so in which way?

   How do we find out how many megapixels an image is soul?

@GoldenRuleJG Hi there, yes, it includes references - you can use APA or just list the websites you used. We don't always publish them so in-text citations/hyperlinking is also a good idea in the case of research.

Mega-pixels are usually listed in an image's properties when we are downloading (on Unsplash this comes with Small/Medium/Large sizes and I usually pick Medium to also get a good size). You can also consider checking the properties of a photo to determine its resolution and dimensions.

@SoulfullyAButterfly perfect - thank you for confirming ❤️😊

@SoulfullyAButterfly thank you so much for this. I think this is generally easy to follow, especially for beginners. I think my question would just be whether you can also provide some good commonly used sources that you can recommend to us? Otherwise, going to Google Scholar is really helpful as we can see a bunch of resources there, especially journal articles and studies.

Thank you so much!

@crang17 Hi there, thank you for this question. I think commonly used resources would depend on the context of the topic we would like to write on. I think my best general tip would be to actually think about EAT applied to the resource! feel welcome to PM me too if you need help/suggestions whenever you are writing

@SoulfullyAButterfly

Thanks for the guidance on the articles, it will be really useful!

@SoulfullyAButterfly I think everything in here is very clear. I don't think I have a question for now. (but maybe I will when I start my writing attempt). 1000-2000 words is real work. this is exciting, thank you for this opportunity.

@SoulfullyAButterfly

Everything seems clear so far. Thank you for all the useful information 💛

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@SoulfullyAButterfly Thanks for the useful information! 1000-2000 words sounds like a great challenge

@niens we are ready to support you!

@SoulfullyAButterfly

Thank you for the useful tips. I can't wait to get started 😊

Hello,

Do we need to put our sources in MLA format?

@Destiny4157 Hi there, you do not need to - you can use in-text citations and can try using the APA format though.

Ok, Thanks! Have a good day/night!

@SoulfullyAButterfly

Hi, so I know with research papers like a literature review, you read various articles on a topic, then you paraphrase to write your own. Is it something like that we are doing?

Also, 1000 words, woww, that's a lot of paragraphs..

@KBeauty12 Hi there, the literature review is a great idea but that is a bit of an academic focus and might take a lot of your time/have the presentation of content a bit more serious than user-accessible. I think general balanced research of the topic itself using other articles, books, and where applicable/interesting research-work like statistics, how research supports a certain support angle, etc will be a more interesting mix of content. It is also interesting to try find an expert to quote or in some instances a person who has experienced our topic.

You are welcome to reach out to me or one of the mentors for support during your brainstorming/writing stages - we're all here to help!

@SoulfullyAButterfly

Thank you for the article guidelines! They were very helpful! My only question would be why we aren't supposed to put punctuation under the subjeadings?

@CoffeeAddict07 thank you for this question! this is just our general presentation, but in general, titles and headings do not need to be punctuated unless for example, it is a question. Additionally, if you subheading was more than a sentence you could consider using punctuation but at 7 Cups, we try our best to just use one short sentence.

I understood all the points, no questions at all.

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I understand all that was said

@SoulfullyAButterfly I understand :)

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Understood, Jedi master! :D

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@SoulfullyAButterfly okay, I have to submit my title today so after reading this I have a much better idea about drawing up topics that will help me create an article.

@glowingOasis3727 yay!

Alright, I'm back!

I look forward to more exercises! <3

@SoulfullyAButterfly

A bit nervous about this, but excited.

I have reviewed each guideline throughly and understand each one completely 😌

Thank you for these guidelines. They are very clear. I would use Google Scholar and Unsplash to make my article more readable and enriched.

@SoulfullyAButterfly

Didn't really understand the photo point can someone explain better? We will be provided with the photo?

@Ginevra962 thank you for the question! In general it is recommended you look for a copyright-free image from websites like Unsplash, but we can also provide one for your article when editing it if support is needed for this!

@SoulfullyAButterfly

Thank you for answering!

❤️ I am quite certain I understand everything! If anything, I could have just some minor doubts, like how to make sure the picture has 1200 pixels x 630 pixels in size, how to know how to submit the article (if it should be emailed, linked to the dashboard or submitted via form) and where the keywords would be. Thank you for this post! ❤️

@SoulfullyAButterfly

Read and understood :)

🦊

@SoulfullyAButterfly

I committed quite a few mistakes in my article, so I would advise others to come back regularly to this post to remind themselves of the guidelines.

1) I had not realised it was 1000 to 2000 words. I understood it as an average. 🙈

2) I wanted to make several illustrations for it, but ended up being short in time to do so, and only had one illustration for it, which isn't a main one, nor the right size.

3) I made it too academic and not enough vulgarisation, which probably also explains the length.

🚩 As a note, it can be a double-edged sword to take a subject we're passionate about, since we might want to go too much in depth about it.

@SoulfullyAButterfly Read and understood! Thank you

@SoulfullyAButterfly

No questions at the moment, but I will continue to read and complete the course work being open to feedback along the way as I learn!