The anatomy of a perfect educational article

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• URL: https://nesslabs.com/educational-article
• Author: Anne-Laure Le Cunff
• Publisher: Ness Labs
• Published Date: 2020-05-21
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Highlights

• Writing an educational article
• best ways to study a topic.
• The Feynman Technique—which - Feynmans 12 favorite problems
• explaining the concept to a child or someone who has no prior knowledge of it.
• A great way to do this is to write an introductory article about what you want to learn.
• educational article is the one that helps you understand a new concept, and helps teach it to your readers as well.
• needs to start from the fundamentals and gradually go into the more complex concepts.
• It also needs to be practical and offer ways to take one’s learning further if they wish to.
• Provide a step-by-step explanation
• take the reader on a journey of exploration and discovery.
• Imagine a ladder with each incremental step bringing the reader and yourself closer to a satisfactory understanding of a concept. (I’m
• One section should only correspond to one idea.
• Make it visual
• “A picture is worth a thousand words.”
• they can be used as explanatory tools.
• Build context
• curious wanderings are still amazing experiences.
• The goal of learning is to form new insights, not to accumulate facts.
  • Note: great goal of learning – create insights - so a KPI … Number of insights one can remember
• Make sure to provide context around the concept you are writing about. This can be as simple as linking to other related concepts,
• will help the readers and yourself progressively create a mental map
• Interlinking concepts is a form of study.
• a knowledge graph, which make it even easier to explore topics within a wider context.
• pay attention to keywords related to topics you may have written about in the past, and link back to these
• Suggest practical applications
• Do include a few pointers so they can put what they just learned into practice.
• write a short educational article to publish on your blog,
• thinking toolbox.
  • Note: a great other word for Second Brain or actually a usage of a Second Brain
• The generation effect shows that we tend to remember information better when we create our own version of the content we consume.
  • Note: This links to progressive summarization and writing something in your own words
• Encourage your readers to share their thoughts
• providing a reading list

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