It is always a joy to read a crisp and original article. Original articles reflect the writer’s thoughts and creativity. If the topic is interesting, reading a neatly written original article gives pleasure like watching a well made movie. On the other hand a copied article stinks like stale food and reading it is as boring as watching a badly done remake movie. Editors, publishers, and webmasters always ask for original articles from writers. Many writers work honestly and write original articles. Some however try to hoodwink and take the short cut. They copy articles written by others and reproduce them. Most of the time their bluff is caught and it ruins their reputation as a writer.

Writers interested to make a mark in their careers should always, every single time, produce original articles and content. If the pay is low, they have the choice to ignore a project. However, when they pick up a project they must write original articles. Copying a single article from other sources may eventually be caught and could tarnish a writer’s reputation, result in denial of payment for other original articles, and sometimes may lead to copyright violation cases. Original articles are therefore the key to success of a writer, nay the very survival of a writer. Therefore, it is not just advisable, it is mandatory to write original article unless otherwise instructed by the contractor to rewrite given content.

There is software available for checking the originality of content. Copyscape is the widely used software to verify the originality of content. Editors, webmasters, and senior writers check doubtful content for plagiarism on this software. Writing an original article is not at all difficult. In fact, it is fun writing fresh content. A little research on the Internet throws up a lot of material on any given topic. Reading them thoroughly and then analyzing them give fresh ideas on which to write. Writing original articles ensures peace of mind and builds reputation of a writer while the reader enjoys reading them.

Articles and content are the soul of a website or a book. As the soul gets fouled up with wrong doing, so articles and content become sullied with lack of originality. An entire website will lose credibility if the content is not original, despite the high quality product and superlative pictures. Therefore, the bottom line is a writer should always write original articles. Duplicity is always shunned and it is highly risky too. The readers as well the editors love it when the article is original.