active vs. passive voice

Dan Goldstein DGoldstein at riverainmedical.com
Thu Mar 27 09:38:50 MDT 2008


I don't use "appears" in technical documentation.

(5'7", hairy except for the scalp, not much disdain)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicola Harlow
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:22 AM
> To: Nancy Allison; techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
> Subject: RE: active vs. passive voice
> 
> I don't like 'appears' in documentation either.  
> I'm 5'10" and not a hairy biker, however I can 
> muster up quite a lot of disdain when I need to.
> 

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