Wes Kao 🏛 @wes_kao

What is "sign posting" and how to use it in your writing:

Sign posting is using key words, phrases, or an overall structure in your writing to signal what's to come in your post, paragraph, or sentence.

The biggest reason to sign post is because it makes your writing skimmable. This is especially important when you're explaining complex ideas or writing longer memos with multiple parts.

Here's a list of my go-to sign posting phrases:

 1. For example
 2. Because
 3. First, second, third, next, finally
 4. Up until now, to date, going forward
 5. For context
 6. At this point
 7. And, but, therefore, so
 8. This means
 9. To be clear
10. As a next step

Which one jumps out to you?

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