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Use for full-manuscript prose and narrative craft on an Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) manuscript — voice, structure, and the storytelling ASQ is known for. Polishes the writing; it does not change the theory or analysis.

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

## When to trigger

- The theory and analysis are settled; the prose needs to reach ASQ's craft bar
- The manuscript is technically correct but flat, jargon-heavy, or hard to follow
- A process study is written in dead "variance-speak"
- Reviewers/editors praise the idea but call the writing "dense" or "unclear"

## ASQ's craft bar

ASQ is known for *superb writing* — long-form articles with a strong narrative arc. The best ASQ papers read as compelling intellectual stories, not as lab reports; Weick's (1993, ASQ) Mann Gulch paper is the canonical example of analysis carried by narrative. The journal's guidelines treat the **compelling presentation of supporting evidence as one dimension of a submission's quality** (verify at journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/asq), and current editorial communications emphasize **curation** — selecting and shaping papers that will endure. Craft is a real evaluation criterion here, not a courtesy.

## The narrative arc
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