Citation-Ready Formatting
Writing so that any section can be extracted on its own and still make complete sense, because retrieval systems cut pages into a few hundred words at a time.
Analogy Mental model
A novel written as one unbroken stream is unusable if a page is torn out. A reference book, where every entry restates its own subject in its opening line, survives being cut into cards.
In practice What you actually do
Three rules. Never open a section with a bare pronoun; name the brand or the product in full, because a passage beginning with it, this tool, or our solution arrives in the index with no subject attached. Write headings as complete questions or complete conclusions. And put a short summary block at the top with the key findings, plus comparison tables in the body.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
Replacing pronouns with explicit product names throughout a catalogue measurably improves how reliably those passages are retrieved. It is a mechanical edit, and almost nobody does it.
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