Antislop Writing: prose a professional would sign, free of AI tells

Draft or revise prose that can stand in professional correspondence, public writing, technical documentation, or longform messages. Aim for clarity, specificity, and a measured tone — and remove the characteristic tells of machine-generated text.

Invocation Notice

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The standard and the reflex

The standard is prose a competent, college-educated professional would write and put their name to: a serious internal memo, a well-edited magazine feature, an Economist or New Yorker piece. It is not thought-leadership, marketing copy, or a LinkedIn post. A passage that would read at home in a conference-talk abstract or a social feed fails the standard even when every sentence is grammatical and lean.

That is the professional register, the default here. The universal part — prose someone would sign, never slop — is the floor under every register; a register adds genre-specific allowances on top of it (a table in a design doc, a greeting in an email), never a license for slop (see "Route by register").