Communication & Storytelling

Make ideas land, and stick

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Reader maturity

Write to the reader you actually have, not the one you wish you had.

Definition

The degree of prior knowledge and motivation a reader brings, which determines how much background, definition, and signposting the writer must provide.

Step 1

Predict first

In one or two sentences, what do you think this concept means? Wrong is fine; the small struggle is what makes the answer stick.