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Re:BLUF: A military standard to make writing more powerful by CalChris on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:14PM (#20967636)
I naturally write in an inductive style, data+evidence followed by conclusion. And gosh darn, don't I just feel brilliant when, after I've laid out all my evidence and my deserving reader has been inevitably led to the only possible conclusion, mine, they agree with the only possible conclusion, mine. My reader is so lucky to have me as a writer.

Well, at least I was made aware of this particular conceit by some rhet profs at Berkeley. But really, anyone, myself included, who writes inductively in a professional setting should be fired for having wasted their readers' time. Luckily, HN is not a professional setting.

Re:BLUF: A military standard to make writing more powerful by kajmagnusmobile on Monday September 16, 2019 @12:01PM (#20985436)
That was an inductive style comment itself? :- ) at least not BLUF (it didn't start with "they should be fired")