Writing a series of articles on just one topic can be awkward, especially if you are not careful when choosing your words. Expanding on a topic that you have previously written several articles on means you will run the risk of sounding repetitive, and your work can quickly begin looking and sounding generic. Using a thesaurus is a good idea; this way you can replace certain words throughout your article while still conveying the same information.

 

If you use MS Word for editing your drafts, there is a thesaurus inbuilt into the program. To use it, simply highlight the word you wish to change, click on “review” then click “thesaurus”. A selection of alternative words will appear in a column to the right of your screen, and you can choose the most appropriate one for the sentence you’re working on. You might look carefully to the last paragraph because it is here that you are restating the basic information about your article from paragraph one, so this is the most likely place that you will experience problems.