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technical writing
3 posts
- 02TuesdayMain Essay·
For years, I blindly obeyed SEO plugin warnings to eliminate every passive sentence. In forcing an actor into every single verb, I realized far too late that I was dragging the reader's attention away from the real point.
Reclaiming the Passive Voice: When Should We Bring It Onstage?
For years, I exhausted my prose trying to satisfy automated warnings against the passive voice. But passive phrasing is not an error; it is a precision lens adjustment that points the sentence's camera where it matters.
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- 05FridayFramework·
I used to think rewriting every passive sentence into active voice improved the copy—until I saw how saying "You entered the wrong password" antagonizes the reader.
The Passive Voice Decision Matrix: Strategic Moments for Concealing the Agent
For years, I redlined every passive sentence into active voice. Yet passive voice is not a grammatical error; it is a strategic lens that pulls focus toward action and outcome.
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- 06SaturdayDifferent Angle·
For years, I treated bullet points as magic whitespace to let text breathe—until I realized readers were constantly hitting invisible speed bumps along the way.
The Bullet Point Trap: How Artificial Variety Breaks Reading Rhythm
While bullet points visually break up dense text, failing to maintain grammatical parallelism creates hidden cognitive friction in the reader's mind.
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