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Excellent article. The points about cutting the fluff and provide a solution are critical, in my opinion, to a piece that's worth spending my time to read. Most

• ryansan 13y ago
  Most opinion based articles tend to restate the obvious but never offer anything beyond that. As a web manager, this is something I struggle with at my company on a regular basis. It's great to have a stance and all, but then you're just a talking head and nothing more. There needs to be a little soul behind what you're saying. Offer solutions, not problems. The other thing I'd add is that fluff is something I've personally struggled with when I write something. I often go back to Edgar Allan Poe's guidelines for writing short stories: In the whole composition there should be no word written, of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one pre-established design.
• ternaryoperator 13y ago
  >Most opinion based articles tend to restate the obvious but never offer anything beyond that. Agreed. The art of writing good opinion pieces is the lay out the arguments sequentially so that the reader is led to the conclusion by himself; such that when you state your opinion he's already come to that point of view. It's time-consuming and requires restraint, but it's very effective.