Post History
In addition to the many good suggestions here: Pay particular attention to the level of sophistication the OP shows in the question. Remember that you're writing primarily for the OP (also for the...
Answer
#3: Attribution notice added
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/33645 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
In addition to the many good suggestions here: Pay particular attention to the level of sophistication the OP shows in the question. Remember that you're writing primarily for the OP (also for the community and future visitors, but that's secondary). For example, on Math.SE an answer that suits a pro may be well beyond an undergraduate, or a high school student. There I try to teach as well as answer. I wonder what the balance is between usefulness to OP vs. to the community. I suspect it varies from site to site. On math.se many of the questions are quite particular. On tex.se they seem to be more general purpose. There's a nice small research project waiting to be done, looking at the statistics on questions, votes and views.