In the last post, we explored how reducing cognitive load helps readers access and understand complex ideas. A strong structure increases the likelihood that readers will absorb and retain more of what you’re saying. In this post, we shift from focusing on…

Clarity isn’t just about word choice or sentence length. Have you ever read a piece of scholarship and found yourself struggling to understand it, not for the content or ideas themselves, but because the layout was hard to follow? This extra effort adds to something called our cognitive load, or…

In this series, I explore how the design of scholarly communication shapes the way readers engage with ideas. Across academic writing, teaching resources, and public scholarship, meaning is not carried by words alone. It is shaped by structure, sequencing, and…