Articles need to be reasonably short - less than 34KB in size. When articles grow past this amount of text, try breaking it into smaller sub-articles.

You can write an article, with many smaller sub-articles.

Sub-articles make it easier to edit and upload the article. It also improves the readability!

Anyone can write about his or her experience in a faith-based social action project. This guide has been developed to provide you with a steer, enabling you to get started, write an informative article, that people will read.

The Audience
CUF Xchange is an open website. The audience will vary from people involved in faith-based projects, to researchers, policy makers and government. CUF Xchange readers have diverse backgrounds, education, faith and worldviews.

1. It is helpful if your writing is accessible and understood by as many readers as possible.
2. It is possible the reader knows nothing about your subject.
3. Your article needs to explain your subject.
4. It is best to assume that CUF Xchange readers are reading the article to learn.

The Style and Tone
The tone of your article needs to be formal and impersonal. It is best to avoid referring to specific names and real people (‘Mrs Sykes volunteered’) instead referring more generally to individuals (‘One person volunteered…’).

• Other things to avoid include using unintelligible jargon, doublespeak or legalese.

News style is the prose style used by tabloid newspapers. A news style article places the important information first, with less important information following as the article progresses.

• Knowledge of this style may be useful in planning your article and layout.

Summary style is similar to news style. Summary style applies best to topics instead of articles and mostly the Introduction sections of articles. A key reason for using Summary style is that this provides different levels of information.

• Some readers require a quick summary and are satisfied by the Introduction section. Most readers require a moderate amount of information, and will find the main article you write suitable. Other readers require detail, and will be interested in reading sub-articles, using external links and following up references.
• Finally be concise - an article that is too long can repeat itself,  become tedious to read.
  

The thing is to have a go. Write what you like.

Not sure where to start? Use the Getting Started pages of the writers guide. Or dip into some hints and tips to help with your article. Not sure how to get started? The help page has some useful animations to take you through the process.