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Use when drafting or polishing prose for an Annual Review of Psychology (ARPsych) review so it lands the authoritative-yet-accessible house voice for a broad psychology readership. Shapes voice, abstract, and intro; it does not design the spine (arpsych-organizing-framework) or run final checks (arpsych-submission).

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# Writing Style — The ARPsych Voice (arpsych-writing-style)

## When to trigger

- The framework, balance, and exhibits are settled; it is time to write (or rewrite) prose
- A draft is technically correct but reads like a grant report or a primary-paper method section
- The abstract and introduction need to be written (do these *last*)
- A non-specialist test reader gets lost in jargon or cannot find the argument

## What the ARPsych voice is

ARPsych reviews are read across all of psychology and by adjacent fields. The register is **authoritative but accessible**: written by a leading expert, readable by a smart psychologist outside the subfield, and usable in a graduate seminar. The two failure poles are (1) a dense specialist treatise only insiders can parse, and (2) a chatty overview with no analytical edge. Aim between them: deep but legible.

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