I agree wholeheartedly with most of these guidelines, at least when writing something you want people to digest easily. My advisor gave me much the same advice for writing papers.
However, I would have to disagree about developing an allergy to the passive voice. If you are writing a paper on flowers, there are situations where it may be more appropriate to say “flowers are pollinated by bees” than to say “bees pollinate flowers”. Bees may be the subject of that sentence, but they are not the subject of your paper.
I agree wholeheartedly with most of these guidelines, at least when writing something you want people to digest easily. My advisor gave me much the same advice for writing papers.
However, I would have to disagree about developing an allergy to the passive voice. If you are writing a paper on flowers, there are situations where it may be more appropriate to say “flowers are pollinated by bees” than to say “bees pollinate flowers”. Bees may be the subject of that sentence, but they are not the subject of your paper.