Sentences

• Subject-verb proximity and the stress position at the end of a sentence
• Nominalisation, hedging stacks and the passive voice used by reflex
• Sentence length variation as a tool rather than an accident

Flow

• Old information before new information as the basis of cohesion
• Topic sentences that carry the argument when the paragraph is skimmed
• Cutting the throat-clearing that opens most scientific paragraphs

Voice

• Adjusting register for specialists, adjacent fields and lay readers
• Metaphor and analogy that clarify without importing a wrong model
• Plain-language summaries and why they are increasingly required

Revision

• Reverse outlining to find structural problems invisible while writing
• Reading aloud, cutting ten percent, and the discipline of the second pass
• Giving and using critique, and separating style preference from a real fault