The bond/gap. Why your writing needs to be good. When the reader sees the writing, they essentially see you. The writing is a picture of your thinking and your competence, to do whatever it is you proclaim to be doing.
This blog is an attempt to lay out the principles that I use — big and small, overarching and nitty-gritty — when I help people revise their writing. This place is somewhere I hope you’ll come to strengthen your own writing skills, focusing wherever you feel the most affinity. I hope that the discussions contained here will help you to organize your writing project effectively from the outset, draft efficiently, solicit feedback from the right kinds of readers, and revise and polish with clear goals in mind and the right tools.
I’ve separated many of the sections into “fundamentals” and “elaborations.” Some people want the guiding principles and others want the nuts and bolts.
If you review others’ writing, you may want to stick to the big picture. I hope to help you to articulate what you’re seeing and what you’re looking for — I want to give you more tools with which to help your colleagues toward effective translation of their expertise.
If you’re a hands-on, show-me-the-mechanics-of-this person, you’ll want to look at both the big picture and the nuts and bolts. I’ve put these in a carefully considered order, but feel free to jump around as your interests lead you.