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Professional Writing · Chapter 9

The Frankendraft Lab

“Can you write the medication part?” is not an assignment; it is a wish. Switch the lines of a real section brief on and off below and watch what your co-author sends back change in front of you — length, register, terminology, whether the nurse can actually decide anything. Then merge it into the policy and sweep the seams you just created.
The brief you send Chen
Section 4.2, high-risk medications, in a 2,000-word falls policy. Each switch is one line of a real brief. Turn them off one at a time and watch the damage.
What comes back
Chen is competent and busy. She will write exactly what she was asked for, and invent the rest.
From: Chen, pharmacy — section 4.2Bedside register
Length
380 / 400 brief
Can the nurse decide?
Yes
Rewrite needed
None