Briefing Article

I did my briefing article on the pros and cons of tapering quantitative easing.  I really enjoyed the things I learned, but I had the hardest time narrowing it down to one page.  Whenever I hear a one page paper is due I think it will be a piece of cake.  With this one, however, I found myself spending way more time than I even imagined.  I really enjoyed the research I did though.  

What I learned from this experience is that people don't want to read long detailed information in an article.  People want to understand the key points of a topic while still gaining a good knowledge of the topic.  Articles in newspapers could be much longer than they are, but the authors and editors have to cut out the fluff and focus on the main topics of something.  This helps people look at an article and want to read it, and want to keep reading it once they've started.

From this experience, I'm going to make sure that I think about this when writing any articles.  I know this will help me communicate much better in the future.