Make Adding “Why” to Your Writings a Habit...#35
Till it becomes an indispensable component of your content.
Hello everyone! You’re reading the thirty-fifth issue of The Handwritten.
The “Why” behind your content is nothing but its logic. And I can sum it up in a sentence only because of my recent experiences. For a brief, I am doing a major in psychology. We have experiments to perform which are part of our course and we have to write reports on them by quantitively and qualitatively analysing the results. Finally, we need to sum it up by interpreting everything, i.e., the related concepts, related studies and research, and the results of the experiments we performed.
Our professors stress on the part of interpretation more than anything because we could be a statement/claim away from misleading the reader (even if it’s hypothetical). So we are immediately asked to explain the logic behind writing a particular sentence. We are nearly warned not to cover up our lack of knowledge or concepts by writing down something that we don’t mean.
So what do we do? We resort to pioneering and recent research and studies by looking them up in books and using credible resources like the American Psychological Association/APA (credibility matters, milord!). All of this is to prove a single point.
Another experience is along the same motive. My previous internship at a mental health start-up also followed something like this. Our goal was to educate and help people with psychoeducational content. Everything we put out spoke for our credibility.
Yet another freelance article writing experience taught me to be gentle and factually correct while educating the audience about mental disorders. Because as much as the audience needs information, they need assurance and vice-versa.
Now spending hours to solve this “why” could be such a pain at times. You may feel like settling with what you already have by either moulding the content in subtle ways or removing the information altogether. But from a farsighted perspective, it won’t make you a better writer because you would be doing what almost everybody is already doing— writing surface-level content.
What makes me say all of this? Writing psychology-related content? Majorly, yes.
Guess what, you needn’t be a psychology student or necessarily write psychology-related content to understand this. But if I could be suggestive, I would suggest you take up small psychology-related work to build this habit and once you do it, there won’t be any going back!
Also, do not worry if you are not interested in reading or writing psychology-related stuff. You can always and always use your curiosity to your advantage and deliver the best possible content.
Let me know your thoughts on this!
Let’s Discuss Comment Section
Time and time again, I do feel that the comment section is really fun and at times, enlightening. Why? Because of people’s stories and the way they share them. I found something recently and I will let it speak for itself.
Handwritten note for you <3
Cya on December 28’ 23
Kindness does! ❤️
rajita always delivering top-notch advices 👑