Balaji Boominathan
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Writing

Technical communication

  1. · 3 minWrite for the reader, not the auditorTechnical writing drifts into a defensive voice: passive, long, careful, addressed to nobody. I rewrote my 80,000-word book against nine rules and measured the result. Sentences got shorter, boxes got smaller, and the reader finally got addressed.

    Try “agents”, “ISO 26262”, “MCP” or “FMEA”.