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Editorial: A Journal for the Workplace

Editorial: A Journal for the Workplace Few readers of this Journal, even would-be authors, are likely to pay much attention to the policy statement on the inside front cover. It’s been there for years, and it doesn’t change much. But look at it again: ‘clarity and brevity are of great importance in making this a journal for the workplace’. To us, this means that contributors should write as directly and simply as is consistent with their subject matter, and use no unnecessary words. Some jargon is inevitable in a professional journal, but it should be kept to a minimum. Writers for the ANZJFT should not need to impress their professional peers with how many technical terms they use, or how many fashionable metaphors they can deploy; nor should they need to pad out their ideas with extra phrases and sentences that sound good without adding anything new to what has already been said. However, when aspiring writers seek out models of style, they naturally model themselves on existing professional articles, or remember how they were trained to write while still at university. It is unfortunate, but true, that many examples of published professional writing are in fact poor models for the kind of writing http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Wiley

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Wiley
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1997 The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy
ISSN
0814-723X
eISSN
1467-8438
DOI
10.1002/j.1467-8438.1997.tb00270.x
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Abstract

Few readers of this Journal, even would-be authors, are likely to pay much attention to the policy statement on the inside front cover. It’s been there for years, and it doesn’t change much. But look at it again: ‘clarity and brevity are of great importance in making this a journal for the workplace’. To us, this means that contributors should write as directly and simply as is consistent with their subject matter, and use no unnecessary words. Some jargon is inevitable in a professional journal, but it should be kept to a minimum. Writers for the ANZJFT should not need to impress their professional peers with how many technical terms they use, or how many fashionable metaphors they can deploy; nor should they need to pad out their ideas with extra phrases and sentences that sound good without adding anything new to what has already been said. However, when aspiring writers seek out models of style, they naturally model themselves on existing professional articles, or remember how they were trained to write while still at university. It is unfortunate, but true, that many examples of published professional writing are in fact poor models for the kind of writing

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy – Wiley

Published: Jun 1, 1997

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