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newms-writing-style
Use when drafting or polishing the prose of a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript for an interdisciplinary readership within the ~8,000-word target, using SAGE Harvard referencing. Shapes the writing; it does not generate findings or design the study.
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# Writing Style (newms-writing-style)
NM&S prose must reach an **interdisciplinary** audience — sociologists, media and communication
scholars, STS researchers, political scientists, and humanists read the same issue — inside a strict
**~8,000-word target** (all text including notes, references, tables, and charts). Write so a reader two
fields away follows the argument, glosses your jargon, and reaches the contribution early.
## When to trigger
- Drafting the introduction or revising for clarity, voice, and length
- A reviewer said the writing is jargon-heavy, technical-only, or buries the contribution
- You are over the word target and need to cut without losing the argument
## The NM&S introduction arc