James S Major

Communicating with Intelligence

Writing and Briefing for National Security

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Produktbeschreibung

Aimed at students, faculty, and practitioners, the book is designed to provide all necessary information on how to prepare, write, and read intelligence publications. This book outlines the foundations of good intelligence communication, a toolkit for writing these documents, the briefing process, and a guide to citations and classified materials.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 619g
• ISBN-13: 9781442226623
• ISBN-10: 1442226625
• Artikelnr.: 40620311

Autorenporträt

By James S. Major

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE: THE FOUNDATIONS OF
GOOD INTELLIGENCE COMMUNICATION Chapter 1: What It's All About Summary
Getting Started: Good Writing Habits Reader Considerations: Basic Truths of
Communicating Reading: A Basic Complement to Writing The Style of Good
Intelligence Writing: Bottom Line Up Front Defining Methods: Telling the
Reader Nothing Making the Distinction Clear for Students The Three Missions
of Intelligence Writing: Judge, Interpret, and Support Differences between
Academic and Intelligence Writing: The Four Essences Analysts: The Voice of
the Intelligence Community The First Step in the Analyst's Learning
Process: Unlearn and Relearn A Framework for Analysis: The Manager's
Perspective for a New Analyst Does It Work? A Final Thought about the
Mission Getting to the Argument Exercises in the Foundations of Analysis
Chapter 2: Using Argument in Intelligence Writing Summary What Is Argument?
Argument Is Central to Intelligence Analysis When You Argue, You Take a
Stand Formulating a Thesis Statement Argument Reflects How Humans Think
Some Ways We Think Evaluating Arguments Where Are the Truths in This Ugly
Business? Putting Your Best Argument Forward Exercises in Argument Chapter
3: Reading: Fundamental to Writing Summary Read to Write: Electronic or
Printed Who Needs It-and Why? The Forms of Intelligence: Basic, Current,
and Estimative Content: Digging into the Format Evaluating Finished
Intelligence Think About Graphics as an Attention-Grabber Reading for the
Sake of Writing Exercises in Reading Intelligence PART TWO: WRITING WITH
INTELLIGENCE Chapter 4: A Tool Kit for Writing with Intelligence Summary
Why Write? Clarity: Be Kind to Your Reader Conciseness: Don't Waste Their
Time Correctness: A Hallmark of Good Writing Appropriateness: Who, Why, and
How? Completeness: The Whole Nine Yards Coherence: The "Glue" That Holds It
All Together Energize Your Writing with Strong Verbs Watch Out for the
Wimps: Prepositional Phrases Stil-l-l Go-o-oing ... Taking the Tool Kit to
Work or School Exercises in the Basic Tools of Intelligence Writing Chapter
5: Prewriting: Warming Up Your Brain to Free Your Hand Summary Finding Your
Subject: The Search for Substance Focusing on Form and Format Finding the
Time and the Space Finding the Right Reference Materials Some Prewriting
Tools: Building a Foundation Brainstorm: It Takes More Than One Brain to
Make a Storm Freewrite: Let the Mind Go Outline: Add Structure Map: Let the
Journey Begin Searching, Researching Exercises in Prewriting Chapter 6:
Writing the First Draft: Getting the Words on Paper Summary A Reminder
about Good Writing Habits Reader Considerations: Basic to Everything We
Write Keep That Bottom Line Up Front Guidelines for the Preparation of Key
Judgments Defining Our Analytical Methods: Who Cares? Drafting: Get Right
to It The Way You Write More about Style More than Words Can Say: Visual
Aids Organizing the First Draft Writing That First Draft: Back to the
Prewriting Your Main Points and the Important Topic Sentence Transitions:
Moving Smoothly Ahead The Body of Your Writing Last, But Assuredly Not
Least The Bottom Line: Focus Remaining Objective Evaluating Sources:
Consider the Originator, Date, and Publisher Previews of Coming
Attractions: Titles, Headings, and Subheadings Beyond the Form and the
Format One Final Note Exercises in Writing the First Draft Chapter 7:
Drafting Conclusions Summary The Role of the Conclusion in Intelligence
Writing Finishing Strong How to Think About Your Conclusions Techniques for
Ending Well Two Practical Examples: Adea and Zanga Cheesy, Confusing, and
Otherwise Problematic Ways to Say "The End" Some Last Words Exercises in
Drafting Conclusions Chapter 8: Beyond the First Draft: Analytical Papers
Summary What Intelligence Writing Should Do: Describe, Explain, & Estimate
What Is an Analytical Paper? Focus on Conclusions Be Relevant to the User
Concentrate on Essentials Avoid Policy Prescription A Model Process for
Reviewing an Analytical Paper E-Review: Working in the Electronic World
Constraints on Review: Time, Experience, Expectations, and Attitude Styles
of Review: Holistic, Top Down, or Bottom Up Review Guidelines: 14 Steps
toward Better Analytical Writing Exercises in Writing Analytical Papers
Chapter 9: Revision: Polishing Your Writing Summary Basic Revision
Techniques Peer Review: A Means toward Revision Review of Content: Three Rs
and Four Sweeps The Three "R" Method of Revision: Reread, Re-envision, and
Rewrite "Four Sweeps" for Revision: Clarity, Persuasiveness, Packaging, and
Writing Thesis and Overview Statements: One Small Step during Revision What
about Grammar-Checkers? Commonly Asked Questions about Revision Ten
Questions to Help You Examine Your Own Writing Process Ending on a Positive
Note Exercises in Revision Chapter 10: Additional Exercises to Hone Your
Writing Skills Exercise 1: Writing a Thesis Statement Exercise 2: Writing a
Paragraph Exercise 3: Writing a Summary Exercise 4: Getting the Bottom Line
Up Front Exercise 5: Working with the Types of Intelligence
Writing-Describe, Explain, and Estimate Exercise 6: Avoiding Passive Voice
and Wordiness Exercise 7: Peer Review of Student Writing PART THREE:
BRIEFING WITH INTELLIGENCE Chapter 11: Briefing: The Flip Side of the
Communication Coin Summary A Disclaimer: Read and Heed, Please Getting the
Word Out The Learning Process: Baby Steps First Why Brief? A Brief Typology
of Briefings "All of the Above" or "None of the Above"? Exercises in the
Types and Principles of Briefings Chapter 12: The ABCs of Good Intelligence
Briefings and Briefers Summary The First Half: Briefings, Easy as ABC The
Second Half: The Briefer Summing Up, from A to C Exercises in Good
Intelligence Briefings and Briefers Chapter 13: Organizing and Writing the
Briefing Summary Getting Started Means Getting Organized Finding Your
Subject and the Time Plan Ahead: Lay the Groundwork Plan Your Milestones:
One Step at a Time Outline Your Thoughts Analyze Your Audience Do Your
Homework Writing the Briefing Script: Write the Words You Will Say Tell 'em
What You're Gonna Tell 'em: The Introduction Free Sample Briefing
Introduction: A Brief Assignment Tell 'em: The Body of the Briefing Putting
the Words Together: Writing the Main Body Putting the Pictures Together:
Making Your Point with Visual Aids Tell'em What You Told 'em: The
Conclusion Putting the Words and Pictures Together Summing Up Exercises in
Organizing and Writing the Briefing Chapter 14: Fine-Tuning Your Briefing:
Voice, Notes, and Visuals Summary Don't Take Your Voice for Granted Use of
Notes Use of Visual Aids The Best Tip of All Exercises in Fine-Tuning Your
Briefing Chapter 15: Doing It! Summary Getting Up to Brief: The Absolute
Necessity Rehearse First-Always! The Big Day at Last PART FOUR: A SHORT
STYLE MANUAL AND CITATION GUIDE A Note to Readers: Summarizing Part Four
Chapter 16: A Few Guidelines for a More Readable Style Don't Waste Words
Use Numbers Properly Plurals and Singulars Puns Placement of Titles,
Headings, and Subheadings The Paper Layout: Think Again about Your Reader
Concluding Section: All Good Things Must End Appendixes and Annexes: Extra
Added Attractions Additional Front Matter Options: Lists of Figures or
Graphics How to Handle Graphic Material (Figures, Maps, Charts, Graphs, or
Tables) Exercises in Usage Chapter 17: Citing Your Sources: A Must for
Scholarship Summary Who Needs to Cite? Why Do It? How Do I Do It? General
Format Spacing and Fonts Sample Note and Bibliographic Forms Abbreviations:
Use Few ABCs of Alphabetization Anonymous Authors or Unattributed Work
Capitalization and Punctuation in Titles Cited Hereafter as . . . Dates of
Publication Explanatory Notes: When the Reader Needs More Foreign-Language
Publications Indirect (Secondary) References Members of Congress Military
Rank Missing Data Multiple Sources in One Note Names, Referenced in the
Text Periodicals Publishers Punctuation Punctuation in Quoted Material
Secondary (Short) Citations Subsequent Works by the Same Author, Agency, or
Organization Titles of Individuals Translations from a Foreign Language
Volume Numbers in Notes and Bibliography Bits and Bytes Exercises in Citing
Sources Chapter18: Electronic Citations General Electronic Sources: What
Are You Citing? The Addresses: Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) The
Mysterious Disappearing Website Page Numbers in Electronic Citations: Not
Always There PDFs, PROQUEST and Such: Looking at the Real Thing Links,
Homepages, and Search Engines: Preferred Solution Generic Citation Format
Keeping Up in the E-World Exercises in Electronic Citations Chapter 19:
Handling and Citing Classified Material Why Use Classified Information?
Unclassified Excerpts from Classified Works: A Bad Idea How? Similarity to
Unclassified Forms Proper Precautions and Markings Downgrading,
Declassification, and Marking No Downgrading Shown? Note and Bibliographic
Forms Intelink: A Unique Intelligence Source Exercises in Handling and
Citing Classified Material Chapter 20: Answers to the Exercises Part One:
The Foundations of Good Intelligence Communication Part Two: Writing with
Intelligence Part Three: Briefing with Intelligence Part Four: A Short
Style Manual and Citation Guide Appendix A: Possible Replacement Words
Appendix B: A Usage Glossary for Intelligence Writers Appendix C:
Intelligence Briefing Checklist Appendix D: A "Free Sample" Briefing
Introduction Appendix E: A Sample Briefing Conclusion Appendix F: A
Briefing Evaluation Form Bibliography Other Sources Used or Consulted for
This Book Index About the Contributors and the Author