BC reader-first-prose

Rewrites expository prose for a reader meeting the subject for the first time, not an insider who already shares the writer's knowledge. Enforces introduce-before-use (every entity, term and acronym defined on first mention, in an order a newcomer can follow), grounds or cuts every metaphor in the same breath it appears, converts compressed or nominalized logic into a plain if-then, and kills the two loudest machine tells, the em dash and the terse two-beat antithesis ("X. Not Y."). Carries an honesty pass so the prose never out-claims its evidence, marking inference as inference and preserving every number exactly. Use when a draft assumes knowledge the reader lacks, reads as insider or "clever", name-drops terms before defining them, leans on unexplained metaphor, or sounds AI-written; or when the user mentions first-time reader, plain language, define before use, sounds like AI, em dash, too clever, or jargon. Complements ladder-of-abstraction, slop-detector and narrative-fidelity-audit.

Rewrites expository prose for a reader meeting the subject for the first time, not an insider who already shares the writer's knowledge.

As a process C 57/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, failures and branches