These tips for writing for a broad audience are derived from The Elements of Style and personal experience. Assuming readers know background facts loses part of the audience. Mechanical Tips for Writers 1. Passive writing is boring writing. A passive sentence places the object acting after the verb.
Active sentences tend to be shorter and clearer.
Such assignments are silly. The passive voice remains a virus in my writings. Maybe as I tire it creeps into the texts, but it is more likely that I am a poor editor of my own works. This is not a pronoun. In writing, unlike speech, one must be precise.