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| Editor's Foreword | |
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| Introduction: The Need for Standards | |
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| Writing and Thinking as an Intelligence Analyst | |
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| The Basic Tools of Writing | |
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| Clarity | |
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| Conciseness | |
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| Correctness | |
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| Appropriateness | |
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| Completeness | |
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| Coherence | |
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| Summing Up the Basics | |
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| Using the Basic Tools | |
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| Pacing Yourself | |
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| Titles, Headings, and Subheadings: Previews of Coming Attractions | |
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| The Paper Layout | |
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| Some Hints for the Content | |
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| Concluding Section: All Good Things Must End | |
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| Appendixes and Annexes: Extra | |
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| Additional Front Matter Options | |
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| How to Handle Graphic Material | |
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| Beyond the Form and Format | |
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| What an Intelligence Analyst Does | |
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| Training New Analysts | |
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| The First Step | |
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| The Differences between Academic and Intelligence Writing | |
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| A Framework for Analysis | |
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| Getting to the Argument | |
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| Argument in Intelligence Writing | |
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| Characterics of Arguments | |
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| Focus on a Thesis Statement and Its Support | |
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| Take Prewriting Seriously | |
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| Developing Support for Your Thesis Statement | |
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| The Usage Manual | |
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| Usage and Abusage | |
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| Wasted Words | |
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| Numbers | |
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| Plurals and Singulars | |
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| Puns | |
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| Punctuation | |
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| Clarification and Separation | |
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| Ampersand (&) | |
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| Apostrophes and Possessives | |
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| Brackets | |
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| Bullets | |
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| Colon | |
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| Comma | |
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| Dashes | |
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| Ellipsis Periods | |
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| Hyphen | |
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| Italics or Underlining | |
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| Parentheses | |
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| Period | |
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| Question Mark | |
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| Quotation Marks | |
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| Semicolon | |
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| Virgule | |
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| Capitalization | |
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| Two Principles | |
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| Coined Names | |
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| Derivatives of Proper Names | |
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| Common Nouns in Proper Names | |
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| Titles Preceding a Name | |
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| Titles Following or Replacing a Name | |
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| Governmental Bodies | |
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| Political Parties and Philosophies | |
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| Diplomatic Units and Corps | |
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| Historic Events | |
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| Titles of Publications | |
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| Military-Associated Terms | |
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| For Emphasis | |
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| Military Designators | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| General Policy | |
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| Abbreviations to Avoid | |
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| Foreign Terms | |
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| Incomplete or Possessive References | |
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| Plural Forms | |
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| Military Grades with Abbreviations | |
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| State, Province, Territory, and District Names | |
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| Abbreviations Often Found in Research | |
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| Abbreviations Often Found in Intelligence Publications | |
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| Compounding and Other Troublemakers | |
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| Demon Words and Phrases | |
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| A Usage Glossary for Intelligence Writers | |
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| Citation Style and Handling Classified Material | |
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| Citing Your Sources | |
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| Who? | |
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| Why? | |
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| How? | |
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| General Format | |
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| Spacing and Fonts | |
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| Sample Note and Bibliographic Forms | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Alphabetization | |
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| Anonymous Authors or Unattributed Work | |
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| Capitalization and Punctuation in Titles | |
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| Cited Hereafter as ... | |
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| Dates of Publication | |
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| Epigraphs | |
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| Explanatory Notes | |
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| Foreign-Language Publications | |
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| Indirect (Secondary) References | |
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| Lecture, Cited in a Book | |
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| Members of Congress | |
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| Military Rank | |
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| Missing Data | |
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| Multiple Sources in One Note | |
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| Names, Referenced in the Text | |
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| Periodicals | |
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| Publishers | |
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| Punctuation | |
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| Punctuation in Quoted Material | |
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| Secondary (Short) Citations | |
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| Subsequent Works by the Same Author, Agency, Organization | |
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| Titles of Individuals | |
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| Translations from a Foreign Language | |
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| Volume Numbers in Notes and Bibliography | |
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| Bits and Bytes | |
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| Electronic Citations | |
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| General | |
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| Electronic Sources | |
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| Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) | |
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| The Mysterious Disappearing Website | |
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| Page Numbers in Electronic Citations | |
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| PDFs, PROQUEST, TIFFs, and Such | |
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| Links, Homepages, and Service Providers | |
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| Generic Citation Format | |
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| Keeping Up in the E-World | |
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| Handling Classified Material | |
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| Why? | |
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| Unclassified Excerpts from Classified Works | |
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| How? Similarity to Unclassified Forms | |
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| Proper Precautions and Markings | |
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| Downgrading, Declassification, and Marking | |
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| Note and Bibliographic Forms | |
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| Intelink | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |