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This tag should be used for questions about typical guidelines that an author may want to follow to become a better author.
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What is the benefit of writing formally?
It seems to me that formal writing has many practices that at best seem arbitrary and at worst seem harmful. Here are some examples:
It discourages using contractions, even though they make writing …
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What is the benefit of using formal terms instead of informal ones?
I understand that sometimes formal terms are superior to informal terms because they're sometimes more specific or succinct, but oftentimes this doesn't seem the case. In those cases, what is the bene …
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