In college we learned to "spill the beans" in technical writing. Instead of: > The goal was bla bla... We tried X... That showed Y. We tried Z, which sort of w

In college we learned to "spill the beans" in technical writing. Instead of: > The goal was bla bla... We tried X... That showed Y. We tried Z, which sort of worked. At the end, we modified Z to work, achieving ABC. should just be > We achieved ABC toward our bla bla goal using a modified Z. [supporting lines]