Finch Index
Tide Tables Atlas
Harbour SurveyExplainers stay under 650 words.
From Style decisions, 28 Oct: Explainers stop at 650 words. Anything longer goes in the report.
Explainer length
Writing
Does my draft of the Finch Index explainer fit the brief?
Used so far
Not yet. The limit for explainers is 650 words M-04 and the draft runs to 812, so 162 words have to come out before it goes to Lina.
Can you shorten the method section to two sentences for me?
Wefton
For park officers and volunteers M-07, here is the section at 41 words:
Volunteers walked the same route through each park on four spring mornings and noted every songbird they heard or saw. We compared those counts with the same routes in 2019, park by park
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.