To clarify our ideas. To understand better what we want to say. To find the best way to organize our material. When you can, express actions and conditions in specific verbs. When appropriate, make the subjects of your verbs the agents of these actions.
Passive verbs are OK if the agent of the action is unknown or unimportant.
Nominalizations are useful to sum up in a subject that went before or to refer to well-established concepts. Generally, old knowledge before new in a sentence. Put orienting or transitional words and phrases close to the beginning of your sentences. Keep them short. Grammar of Emphasis Cohesion Within paragraphs, make your topics a coherent sequence of ideas.