An infrequent part of my job is writing and editing public reports about data. Not even guessing as to causal factors or future impacts, just stating the data

An infrequent part of my job is writing and editing public reports about data. Not even guessing as to causal factors or future impacts, just stating the data in English. I wish more people would accept that writing is not speaking. Beyond pronouns, when this is good advice: - Don't use acronyms for short names or phrases. "Department of Motor Vehicles" is a mouthful, but not much more of an eyeful than "DMV" after seeing it twice. (Consider using the acronym if the amount of space filled with text looks daunting). - It's okay to be repetitive. In fact, it's good to repetitively present data. The pinnacles of this is the table, but narrative text also works.