I think we'd be better served using such styles in scientific journals more often.
As an example, here's a wonderfully written article by the late statistician, Jacob Cohen: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~sternh/courses/210/cohen94_pval.pdf
Re:Please learn to write
by disgruntledphd2 on Sunday May 20, 2012 @10:48AM
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Just to note, although he wrote far more on statistics, he was a psychologist born and bred.
Agreed. Grammar's just norms of communication, and norms depend on context. So treat the violation of them as such - sometimes it matters, sometimes it don't.
Apropos, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY it would seem this whole topic is rather inflammable.
Re:Please learn to write
by jeffpersonified on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @03:44PM
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All is dependent on audience.
That means prepositions are very much something you can end a sentence with. And you can start one with a conjunctive too, if it feels right. The rules of grammar are more like the pirate code than an ISO standard - they're more what you might call guidelines, really.