This article is somewhat of a departure from the fieldwork and skills topics that you would normally find in this part of the magazine. This article is inspired by a recently published book, Writing for Busy Readers (Rogers and Lasky-Fink, 2023). The focus on busy readers is interesting. This is because we all live in an age of information overload and media saturation. In order to get your point across as a writer, you need to break through those distractions.
In the context of your geography independent investigation, there are several ways that a focus on writing may help to improve the quality (and mark) of the end product. Making the investigation write-up an effective piece of communication is very important — so that it can be easily referenced to the mark-scheme, for instance. Rogers and Lasky-Fink identify several wider and interlinked principles of effective writing that should be considered:
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