Read “伝わる短い英語” – Plain English

I read a book about Plain English. The title was 伝わる短い英語―アメリカ、イギリス、カナダ、オーストラリア 政府公認 新しい世界基準.

I expected it would help my work on business or OSS activities. Now, I think this book is proper for persons who haven’t learned technical writing or writing thesis to explain something clearly. If you already experienced them, maybe this book is not so valuable. (We must practice writing, reading and speaking though)

A good thing I learned was the usage of active voice and passive voice was correct. Many situation were active voice style, but I’ve used passive voice one to explain methods and arguments as a docstring. And in some explanations about algorithm etc.

Analyzer: https://jpelc.org/readability/

I wonder Oxford Guide to Plain English brings much insight to me.

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