On the importance of writing clearly - off-topic discussion split from "The no Market Hypothesis" topic

[Windy_Skies]

Sorry for going on about this. In my defense, I haven’t said anything about this for years, trying to parse what you wrote. There were times when I failed.

After thinking about it a bit more, now I think my

@Windy_Skies

It’s just a courtesy to your reader to link your references, and expand your acronyms. Don’t do it and you’ll soon get ignored.

Was right, but doesn’t capture the whole issue. That focused only on the things I imagined would be easily rectified by you, as a compromise to you.

To be most effective in communicating your ideas, you should go over your writing and try to take away questions like I put in here.

We [who?] have slowly learned many scaling factors [which? when and how did you learn those?] apply in AWES design. Gravity imposes a special scaling law [why is that special?]. As a kite structure grows, it’s progressively more subject to Gravity effects [how, why?], especially during aerobatics and turbulence [why especially then?]. In zero gravity, like solar-sailing in space, kites can be vast structures limited only by self-gravity [can you back that up?]. In Earth gravity, kites barely scale, due to the “tidal” forces [what are those and how do they affect kites?]. Once again [when was this previously stated?], soft kites are predicted [by whom?] to most scale [why is scaling and not some other metric like power/m^2 important?], by lowest weight to power (highest power to weight).

My takeaway: heavy thing be heavy, cloth is light. It’s muddled writing suggesting muddled thinking. You add to existing knowledge by the depth and breadth of the analysis, not only in your own mind but on paper so that the reader can follow along. The reader can then use that newfound knowledge to guide their actions. If you’re going to be writing in the future with a goal to advancing knowledge or convincing readers, you should improve your writing. If you are committed to writing better, it’s not difficult to achieve. Just going over it and trying to see what questions a reader might still have will make a difference. 20 percent of the effort will make 80 percent of the difference I think.