Think Reader : Reader-designed techniques to improve your writing

As writers, the most efficient way to improve our writing is to THINK READER. Readers are like you and me, people with limited memory, attention, and knowledge. THINK READER introduces tools to assess how well your writing reaches your reader. It presents writing design principles and practices that sustain reader attention, enhance readability, and persuade with gentleness. THINK READER is the essential writing resource for government workers, non-fiction writers, technical writers, and scientists who publish papers, reports, brochures and documents for people less experts than they are. THINK READER is applicable across languages since it considers the way we read, and promotes efficient use the brain resources we use for reading, i.e. memory, attention, and knowledge.

THINK READER includes 130  examples to illustrate the design principles of good writing. It also includes 25 “swimming” exercises, some in shallow pools, some in deep pools. Get your feet wet. One does not learn swimming by watching others swim! Discover your writing style. Find out what does not read well. In short, be your own physician. The last chapter contains interactive multiple choice questions to test your understanding and validate your knowledge gain. The answers are online at the book website.