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Use when polishing full-manuscript prose and narrative craft on a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — the reflexive, theoretically-engaged HR voice, intro/abstract, and structure within the 13k cap. Polishes the writing; it does not change the theory or analysis.

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# Writing Style & Craft (humrel-writing-style)

## When to trigger

- The theory and analysis are settled and the prose needs to reach HR's register
- The draft is technically correct but flat, jargon-heavy, or hard to follow
- A process/critical study is written in dead "variance-speak"
- A reviewer praises the idea but calls the writing "dense," "unclear," or "undertheorized in places"
- You are tightening to the **13,000-word** cap or writing the **100–200 word** abstract

## The HR register: reflexive and theoretically engaged

HR prose is **scholarly, theoretically engaged, and socially aware** — closer to the reflexive register of European organizational social science than to the terse hypothesis-report style. The writing should make the social-theoretical argument visible throughout, keep the human relations at the centre, and (in qualitative/critical work) acknowledge the author's situatedness without lapsing into confession. It is theory-led but readable: a smart reader from sociology, psychology, or organization studies should follow the argument and feel its stakes.
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