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revedres-writing-style

Use when drafting or revising prose, the 150-word abstract, and the introduction in the Review of Educational Research (RER) synthesizing voice and APA 7 style. Lands the integrative voice; it does not build the analytic spine (revedres-organizing-framework) or design exhibits (revedres-tables-figures).

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# Writing Style (revedres-writing-style)

## When to trigger

- The framework and exhibits are settled and the prose needs to match the RER bar
- A draft summarizes study-by-study instead of synthesizing across studies
- The abstract is over 150 words or reads like a primary-research abstract
- The introduction buries the contribution or over-signposts

## The RER voice: synthesize, do not summarize, for a broad education audience

RER is read **across education and adjacent disciplines**, not by one method club. The voice is **comprehensive, critical, and integrative**: authoritative about the field, fair to every camp, and accessible to a reader who does not already know this literature. The single most-punished move is **prose that walks through one study per paragraph** — "Smith (2019) found… Jones (2020) found…" — which is summary, not synthesis. Instead, organize paragraphs around **claims, constructs, and tensions**, citing clusters of studies as evidence for each.

## The introduction arc