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ci-writing-style

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Use when drafting or polishing the prose of a Critical Inquiry (CI) essay so it meets the journal's bar for ambitious, lucid critical writing and fits the word limit (articles ≤ 9,500 words including discursive notes and all bibliographical information; Critical Responses ≤ 3,000; Reviews ≤ 500). Tightens style and discipline; it does not invent argument or evidence.

When to use

• Drafting the opening
• Final stylistic polish
• Cutting text over the word cap
• Tightening flat or baggy prose
• Tuning register for rigor
• Style execution pass
• Rewriting first two pages
• Generating a claim/evidence ledger

When not to use

• Inventing argument
• Inventing evidence
• Generating the argument
• Empirical-results narrative

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