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Now that you have your primary reader in mind, be alert to the places in your manuscript where you’re worried they might not come along with you. Imagine that you’re talking across a table: ‘worry spots’ are the moments when they might interrupt, or stop nodding, or begin to scowl. Maybe you defined your terms in an unusual way; yes, the reader will quibble. Maybe you used a hybrid methodology; yes, the reader could prefer the purist version. Maybe you settled firmly on one side of a controversy; yes, the reader may sit on the other. What we’re most interested in are worry spots at fundamental points in your paper: if you don’t deal with these worry spots, readers may misunderstand your key terms, mistrust your methods, reject your main premise or resist your argument.