Finch Index
Tide Tables Atlas
Harbour Survey
Explainers stay under 650 words.
From Style decisions, 28 Oct: Explainers stop at 650 words. Anything longer goes in the report.
Does my draft of the Finch Index explainer fit the brief?
Wefton
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2 of 12Not yet. The limit for explainers is and the draft runs to 812, so 162 words have to come out before it goes to Lina. The figures and the park table hold up, so nothing else in the brief is at risk.
Your readers are , so start with the method section. It walks through transect counting in field terms, and two sentences on how it was done will carry it.
Council park officers and volunteers. No field jargon.
From Reader notes, 14 Oct: These are the people who run the twelve sites. If a term needs a field guide, cut it.
Where the words goNowAfterChange
Method21470−144
Opening9678−18
Whole draft812650−162
P-13
Marsh Park counts exclude the June flood week.
P-14
Say decline only for drops above 5%.