I spend so long editing the initial garbage that I spew for style and clarity and logical sequence that the session often times out and I have to copy and paste the text into a new one. That's why my posts may contain complete non-sequiturs where I missed a major change at line wrap, which isn't where you see it.
I began posting here for informal practice when I was having enormous difficulty writing technical reports and manuals. The group may complain but they don't write my review.
That pedantic, rigorous, and jargon-filled style is a valuable insider shorthand for concepts not easily expressed in standard civilian English. I just had an argument about Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in another group and found myself writing that way.
MITRE offered a class on how to write technical Governmentese, which is similar to Legalese in that some words have specific restricted meanings. The instructor explained that the writing style of an organization mirrors its balance between freedom of initiative and personal responsibility, and the consequences of mistakes. He used a bank as one extreme and an artists' collective as the other. An investment prospectus and an art review are the same thing written under different rules in radically different styles.
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