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Use when polishing the prose of a Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) manuscript — the abstract, introduction, theory narrative, and APA-6 mechanics — so a pluralistic, theory-forward reviewer pool can follow the argument. A late-stage polish; it does not build the contribution (jais-contribution-framing) or check submission mechanics (jais-submission).

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# Writing Style (jais-writing-style)

## When to trigger

- The theory, evidence, and contribution are settled and the prose now needs to carry them
- The introduction reads as a literature dump and the contribution does not land in the first pages
- Your sub-field's shorthand makes the paper opaque to reviewers from other IS traditions
- References and in-text citations are not in APA 6th edition
- A reviewer says the writing is "dense," "jargon-heavy," or "the argument is hard to follow"

## Write for a pluralistic, theory-forward reader

JAIS reviewers span behavioral, economic, design-science, organizational, and critical/philosophical traditions, and the journal prizes "innovative, interesting and rigorously developed" work. Your prose must therefore do two things at once: make the **theoretical argument** vivid and primary, and stay legible to a reader who does not share your methodological dialect. Define terms the first time; explain why a move matters before you make it; lead with ideas, not apparatus.
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