Active voice makes it easier to explicitly identify the doer in a tranasaction. Consider X will record the meeting decisions and supply them to Y vs. T

Active voice makes it easier to explicitly identify the doer in a tranasaction. Consider X will record the meeting decisions and supply them to Y vs. The meeting decisions will be recorded and supplied. In any sort of situation where responsibilities must be explicitly identified (e.g. a contract), active voice can really help. You can make responsibilities clear in passive voice as well, but active voice is more direct and less stilted. In situations where the doer is unimportant, passive is okay ('experiment data was logged'), but I still think sounds clunky. Coming back to the wider point about not being misunderstood, two rules that I apply are the 'make responsbilities explicit' one I've just discussed, and "make sure it is obvious what 'it' and 'this' refer to". As a writer of technical content, you should never make the reader have to work to figure out what you mean.