Posted in: passive voice

I read an interesting post this morning about using active and passive voice; the dilemma the technical writer was having was that she was writing SOPs and wanted to use active voice, but the engineer (the subject matter expert) was vehemently opposed. Why? Seems that, for some reason, this engineer had it in his head that passive voice is preferable to active. So, instead of writing "Perform the maintenance"...
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