The Little Guide to Writing for Impact: How to Communicate Research in a Way That People Will Read

This handy manual enables writers in the world of research to explore the start-to-finish process of writing for impact--and authors to explore a single writing challenge in-depth. It is full of examples of both good and bad writing, as well as the authors’ own tales in navigating the road from a new idea to a written product that packs punch.

Described by Peter Harkness, founder of Governing magazine, as ＂by far the most experienced journalists in the country covering public performance,＂ Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene are senior advisors and columnists for Route Fifty, visiting fellows at the IBM Center for the Business of Government, special project consultants to the Volcker Alliance, senior advisors with the Government Finance Research Center at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and more.

Donald F. Kettl is the Sid Richardson Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Volcker Alliance and the Brookings Institution.

Kettl is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Divided States of America: Why Federalism Doesn’t Work (2020); The Politics of the Administrative Process (8th edition, 2020); Can Governments Earn Our Trust? (2017); Little Bites of Big Data for Public Policy (2017); Escaping Jurassic Government: Restoring America’s Lost Commitment to Competence (2016); System under Stress: The Challenge to 21st Century American Democracy Homeland Security and American Politics (2014); The Next Government of the United States: Why Our Institutions Fail Us and How to Fix Them (2008); and The Global Public Management Revolution (2005).