From the course: Writing White Papers
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Developing your white paper's core
From the course: Writing White Papers
Developing your white paper's core
- Now it's time to dig into the central part of our paper, the part between that front matter and the back cover. Let's recap some of the decisions we made earlier. It's going to be about eight to 12 pages in total. That comes to only five to 10 pages of core material when you subtract the cover page and such. It's written for local government officials. Their backgrounds and levels of technical knowledge will vary greatly, but we can assume they care about how solar power affects their community. Although we're a commercial company, our paper is about information, not sales. We'll start by writing only the section heads to create a sort of scaffolding on which we can drape the text and other elements. Here we have the document we started in another video in this course. I'll skip past the front matter to the main text and just start brainstorming. I know I'll want a section that states the problem in a way the reader is likely to understand. Perhaps first describing the energy mix in…
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