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Working in an agency requires being able to organize, coordinate, plan, cooperate, summarize, give speeches, and write materials. Among them, material writing is the most important. It is a hard skill and requires real ability. Good writing skills can make your iron rice bowl stronger and more fragrant, and even turn it into a silver rice bowl or a golden rice bowl. As someone said, the person who wrote the material is "politically popular."

1. Have a sense of service and dedication

I once read an article, but I forgot the title. It was probably about savoring the ups and downs of material writing. As a writer, I feel deeply, and I have excerpted a few sentences:

1. The xxx department has few people and many things to do. It is busy all year round, and there is no off-season in work. It is often "white plus black" and "5 +2", it is indeed a bit bitter.

2. The xxx department has many meetings, materials, documents, and things to do, and the probability of making mistakes is also high. Especially if it has more contact with leaders, it may also lead to more criticism.

3. The xxx department is very busy. You may feel sad when you see others enjoying family time with their wives and children while you are working overtime; you may feel sad when you see others go home often and respect their parents, while you It’s rare to go back once a year, and you might feel sad. The xxx department is very poor. It may feel sad to see the big money squandering money like water, but you have to borrow money to buy a house; you may feel sad to see the powerful department with great powers, but you have few contacts and it is difficult to get things done.

It is true that there are many chores during the day when writing materials, and it is not possible to calm down, so it is common to work overtime and stay up late; when writing materials, you sit in the office all day long, and over time, you become dull and unable to talk to others; when you write materials, others You are busy when you are busy. When others have finished their work, you have to be busy to summarize. I remember one day five years ago, my dad didn’t take a break for two consecutive weekends because he was busy with work. He was done with his work and thought he could go home to spend the weekend with his wife and children. But as soon as he got home, the boss called and said that he had The big boss is coming next Tuesday and has a report and discussion materials to write. So, for these two materials, I added four all-nighters, so I could take time to catch up on sleep during the day. Delivered on the last day.

Therefore, although the person who writes the material is "politically a popular person," he is "a busy person at work, a poor person in life, and a patient in body." To write good materials, you must not only have good A good pen should also have good spirit and spirit, and be able to look at one's own gains and losses, sorrows and pains with an open mind. This is the first experience.

2. We must thoroughly understand the spirit of our superiors

I won’t go into detail on this point. Everyone understands the importance. We must always read the party committee reports of various agencies and the documents issued by superiors to understand them thoroughly. Spirit. If your superiors don't grasp the spirit, your writing of materials will be like a rootless tree. You will work blindly and easily make mistakes.

I went to higher-level agencies to participate in the writing of large materials several times. They put all kinds of red books and the spirit of speeches of leaders at all levels on the conference table. Even a small sentence must be It has a background, a provenance, and a very rigorous attitude.

3. Accurately understand the leadership’s intention

As the saying goes: “Understand the top, find out the bottom, and only when the two ends touch, can you write the head.” It is very important to understand the leadership’s intention. How to understand, my experience is as follows:

1. Read more of the leader’s previous speeches, and become familiar with his way of thinking, language style, speaking habits, etc.

2. Take the initiative to participate in some meetings, understand the work priorities, principles, requirements, and measures planned by the leaders for a period, and understand the leadership’s activity intentions and dynamics, etc. Some meetings are recorded for those who cannot participate due to their level. , you can try your best to come and listen, and write down the key points and classic sentences of the leader’s speech. This is very useful. Sometimes, you can just use it when writing a speech, which saves trouble and the leader likes it.

3. Communicate directly with leaders. When doing specific work, they must go level to level and cannot skip levels. However, this cannot be done when writing materials. It is best for drafters to directly talk to the speaker, otherwise, the middle person will The more layers and ideas there are, the more work may be done but the leader will not be satisfied, and half the result will be achieved with half the effort. For example, one time my father asked me to make a meal without rice. Everyone must have had this experience. When writing something, I have to use a certain example or find a certain article for reference. I remember this thing in my heart, but always Can't find it either. This is the result of us not paying attention to collecting materials.

At the meeting, I wrote down a few new words said by a top leader, and I used them in several subsequent materials. As soon as the top leader saw his thoughts, they were adopted quickly and very quickly. Happy.

4. Collect a large amount of writing materials

Dad’s leaders are better than dad and I in this regard. For example, the top leaders in the past insisted on reading newspapers and news every day. Read magazines and take notes. I remember one time a year ago when I went to submit a document to the current leader, I saw him holding a notebook, picking out newspaper articles, and pasting the cut-out small tofu pieces into a clipping folder. Dad asked boldly, as if he was taking an opportunity to flatter me. The leader was very kind, and his answer shocked Dad. He said that he had more than a dozen clipping folders and information cards. He had been doing this for more than ten years, and the collected information was indexed into categories, making it easy to find.

After listening to the leader’s words, Dad finally understood why he could be a leader and sit in such a big office, while I was still a small penman, so the gap was huge.

5. Conceive the plan carefully and carefully

It is very important to conceive the plan. For example, making clothes is impossible without fabrics, but with fabrics, it is not possible if the tailoring is not good, and the fabrics may even be ruined. The same goes for drafting a manuscript. Even if you have the necessary materials, if the structure is not arranged well, it will still not be written well. It is necessary to prevent confusing logical relationships, otherwise it will be difficult to write, and even if it is written, it will not be a good article.

6. Continuously deepen and refine the theme

There are three standards for measuring the level of a writer: if you write something that others have not thought of, it is the best; if others think of it but do not say it, And if you write it down, it’s middle; if someone else thinks of it and says it, and you say it, it’s lower level. How can I write something that others haven’t thought of? A very important point is that what you write must be thoughtful and be able to refine the theme. To do this, one is to always have reserves. When reading other people's articles, you can write down good points. I used to have a good practice, which is to be a clickbait and read good articles in newspapers and magazines. I copied the title, but unfortunately I don’t insist on it now. The other is to dare to write things that others have not written before while adhering to major principles.

For example, if you want to write about safety precautions, this aspect will be discussed in large occasions. It is not easy to write new ideas. Once, my father received a material task in this area. I thought hard about it. Later, I remembered that I had read the "Hain's Law" in security, and suddenly I was inspired to see if I could use this. I checked some information. , and finally three titles are listed. The first is to learn Hayne's Law well and do a solid job in prevention; the second is to learn the long tail theory well and firmly implement the end-to-end implementation; the third is to learn Murphy's Law well and actively draw lessons from experience. The writing was novel and vivid. The manuscript was passed over and over again, and the leader said that he had learned something new. The response from those who listened was also very good.

7. Revise repeatedly for excellence

As a material veteran, my father grew up in the process of changing and repairing materials again and again, so he is very interested in elaborating on this. The process of understanding was very profound. When revising materials, pay special attention to the following points:

1. Check whether the title is concise enough. It must be general, impactful and memorable.

2. Consider the accuracy of the examples. I would rather not write anything that is inaccurate.

3. Check the accuracy of the proposed opinions.

4. Check for typos, punctuation marks, data inside and bound page numbers, etc.

In this regard, because my father has a carefree personality, he has made many mistakes, learned many lessons, and was often scolded.

Here, based on my personal experience, I would like to share with you the places where errors and omissions are more likely to occur: 1. Typing is caused by accidentally typing typos, homophones (pinyin), and homophones (wubi), etc.; 2. There are problems with data verification, sometimes forgetting to write, or writing old data; 3. Problems with the use of punctuation marks, periods, commas, and pauses are not separated; 4. The serial number is wrong, 124, missing 3, or small The format of the title is incorrect; 5. The fonts of the titles at all levels are wrong; 6. The number and date of the text are copied by yourself, and they are from previous years or months; 7. The double-sided printing page number should be on the outside, which is an error; 8 , Lines were lost during printing, and the page was wrong when printing on A3 paper; 9. The page number was wrong when binding; 10. The recipient of the document was wrong. ……etc!