Monthly Newsletter Writing Steps.

What are the steps to writing a monthly newsletter? How can these steps help those who are writing in on highly specific topics?

For my work as an English Specialist at an IB school in Jakarta, Indonesia I helped to facilitate the writing of a monthly newsletter on various topics surrounding school content, curriculum, and current events. The articles content were at about 300-500 words a piece and the topics were generally assigned broadly.

Many of the teachers are local Indonesians and studied with me in an English as a Second Language professional development course. A focus of the class was on completing the newsletter article assignments because of the difficulty for the teachers to write grammatically correct in a second language and also because the assigned topics were highly specific and sometimes difficult to build relatable content on.

I created these simple steps so that a routine could be developed for writing. It is important that you as a writer create open questions which you mind map surrounding your topic which will help you to explain the specific topic in depth through your writing.

Steps to Newsletter Writing

Choose a topic.

Coordinate deadlines – effective time management.

Mind map and conclude the end result and expectation of the article.

Create open ended questions which will help to begin the formulating process.

Make an outline, sequence, and structure.

Write.

Self-edit and reconfirm the language mechanics and structure.

Ask for a peer review and edit.

Self-edit and correct.

Title the work (simple and attractive).

Finalize the written copy.