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Written for the people who commission, produce, and edit research reports, policy briefs, and institutional publications — by editors who work in those sectors.
Policy Writing
March 2025
Most policy briefs fail not because the research is weak, but because the document is structured for the researcher rather than the reader. Five structural problems, and how to solve each of them.
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February 2025
The most common misdiagnosis in research publishing: commissioning a line edit when the document has a structural problem, or requesting a structural edit when the prose is the issue. How to tell the difference.
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January 2025
An executive summary is not an introduction. It is the document. Policymakers and senior decision-makers often read nothing else. Here is what makes one work — and what makes most of them fail.
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