How to Write an Op-Ed / How to Write an Opinion Column / How to Write a Guest Essay

Jeffrey Seglin, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Harvard Kennedy School Communications Program, on how to write an opinion column.

A pdf on how to write an op-ed or column is here: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/def...

A pdf listing the classic structure of an op-ed column is here: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/def...

A pdf with guidelines for writing a successful op-ed pitch are here: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/def...

Resources from the Harvard Kennedy School Communications Program can be found at http://www.hkscommprog.org.

The article mentioned in the video by Pranav Reddy in Undark magazine, "Pollution Kills Nine Million People a Year. How Is that Okay?" is here: https://undark.org/2020/04/16/global-....

The article mentioned in the video by Marta Hanson in WBUR's Cognoscenti, "I've Lived through Wildfires Before but Nothing Compares to This" is here: https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020...

The column used as an example in the discussion of op-ed structure in the video by Melvyn Krauss in Bloomberg, "Why More Women Are Winning at Musical Chairs" is here: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/art...