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How to write clearer
- A considerate writer will add a few words of explanation to common technical terms, such as Arabidopsis, a flowering mustard plant.
- Readers will appreciate many examples when you explain an idea..
- If you write a sentence that makes you pause and think about what it means, assume your readers might react the same way.
- Before publishing your writing, take a few moments to ensure that what you write is clear and understandable.
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The root cause of bad writing is struggling to imagine what it is like for someone else not to know something that you know. Whenever writing is loaded with jargon, clichés, technical terms, and abbreviations, two questions come to mind:
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When we become good at our job or hobby, we use catchwords to shorten long-winded descriptions that we have become very familiar with.
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It is a cognitive bias that describes the fact that when you know something, it's very difficult to know what it's like not to know it.
The things you know seem so obvious to you and you assume that everyone else knows them too.
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The Curse of Knowledge, suffered by many authors, is the inability to think like the less-informed layperson who is going to read the content.
- Professional writing is filled with all kinds of ‘ese’, legalese, academese etc. which makes it unrelatable and unclear, co...
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Readers understand and remember material far better when it is expressed in concrete language that allows them to form visual images. So trying to make the reader “see” is a good goal and being concrete has huge effects.
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