Analytic Writing Guide, 2nd Ed. (2025)
Louis M. Kaiser and Randolph H. Pherson
December 2025
The Analytic Writing Guide is a user’s guide for writing papers, short memos, and emails when the objective is to inform a busy reader or decision maker who is inundated with other communication and preoccupied with other tasks. It focuses on ideas and information: making sure that all the information needed to understand the main points is in the paper and in the right order, minimizing and eliminating extraneous information and ideas, and resolving inconsistencies. This book offers a mix of strategic and tactical advice for writers of analytic papers, ranging from how to get started to how to order information in a paragraph.
Note on this Edition
This edition reflects the transition of Randolph H. and Katherine Hibbs Pherson’s intellectual property from Pherson Associates, LLC to Globalytica, LLC. This version also documents the passing of Randolph H. Pherson (1949–2024) and includes updates to citations and references to provide the most current sources available.
