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Subject:Re: Definately and English teachers... From:Steve Delanghe <zulu -at- CIX -dot- COMPULINK -dot- CO -dot- UK> Date:Mon, 5 Jun 1995 13:50:00 GMT
>> inability to address the reader as "you"
I don't think this is symptomatic of poor technical writing, though using
symptomatic might be, I guess..): if your audience objects to you being
familiar, then you should incline the proportion of actives/passives
towards passives. The rules are made by each reader (sometimes at each
reading..) not by the writer.
Steve
(...hang the sense of it, just keep yourself busy...)
