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The Four Cs of great writing

Create quality content that stands out

Tekla Szymanski Content+Design
2 min readDec 7, 2022

Have you ever been unsure how to present your content, or overwhelmed by the entire writing and publishing process? Yes, writing is hard. Yet it is structured and follows certain rules. That helps.

But there’s more to it if you want to create content that stands out. You also need to remember the 4 Cs that every piece of published writing relies on.

Following these steps meticulously helps ensure you’re more than just good at your craft as a writer and can present your stories effectively and compellingly.

The four vital steps to creating quality, engaging content are…

  1. Copywriting / Content Creation
    Carefully crafting each line that you write
  2. Copyediting
    Combing over every word and fine-tuning your message
  3. Content UX
    Consistent font sizes, typography, line spacing and paragraph lengths that ensure a good user/reader experience
  4. Content Design
    Combining it all into a visually appealing and effective content flow

Most good content creators can write a 5k-word blog post easily. But not every writer can create a blog post or an article that stands out, engages, is error-free and styled correctly.

Now, you can.

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Tekla Szymanski Content+Design
Tekla Szymanski Content+Design

Written by Tekla Szymanski Content+Design

Content Design & Content Quality Control | Localization & AI QA. Trilingual, Multicultural, Global. 100% Human.

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