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Is your thinking ready to publish under your own name?

Answer fourteen questions about your arguments, your voice, how claims are checked and how the writing gets made. See your score, the weakest area and what to fix first. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.

Publishing under your name

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Your arguments

Can you state a view about your field that a serious peer might disagree with?

Can you back that view with specific examples from your own work?

Is what you want to say specific to your experience rather than general advice?

Do you know which serious readers you want to reach?

Your voice

Does what is published under your name sound like you to colleagues who know you?

Is there a written guide to how you write and speak?

Do you review drafts for the argument, not only for the wording?

Claims and facts

Is every factual claim checked before it goes out under your name?

Is a named person responsible for checking claims against sources?

Do you leave out figures you cannot trace to a source?

How it gets made

Is there a regular time to get ideas out of your head, such as a fortnightly interview?

Do you publish at a volume you can keep to a high standard?

Do finished drafts reach publication without waiting weeks for your review?

Do you own your drafts, notes and voice guide if you change writers?

Answer the questions to see your score. It updates as you go.

Method: yes scores a question in full, partly scores half and no scores nothing. Each is weighted from one to three by how much it affects whether serious readers trust the piece, and the score is the weighted share out of a hundred. Unanswered questions are left out.

Is your thinking ready to publish under your own name?

Answer fourteen questions about your arguments, your voice, how claims are checked and how the writing gets made. See your score, the weakest area and what to fix first. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.

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