ironic title "Sociological Habit Patterns in Linguistic Transmogrification." George Gopen and Judith Swan noted some trends common in the scientific prose in their article "The Science of Scientific Writing" . Richard Lanham characterised most of the trends in his book "Revising Prose", and even dubbed the style with a name, 'The Official Style'. Let's look at the trends common in articles written in this scientific prose:
             Use of the passive voice: The scientist doesn't conduct the experiment, the experiment is just conducted; the scientist doesn't fill the beaker with acid, the beaker goes through the process of being filled with acid.
             Weak verbs: The action of the sentence is diluted into a weak verb such as 'is'; for example: 'is in need of' is used instead of 'needs', 'they reached a decision' instead of 'they decided'. Often entire sentences are written by just gluing together a collection of ready-made phrases such as these.
             Everyday terms are given long, technical sounding names, by prefixing many adjectives to general nouns (also known as DoubleSpeak ): A 'highly unanticipated automobile deceleration event' replaces a car crash, a 'spontaneous energetic disassembly' replaces of an explosion.
             Impersonal style: For example, writing 'It has been determined that' instead of 'I found'.
             Redundancy: Things and situations are described in great laborious detail, often excessive.
             Slow starts and implication of information: All this hubbub causes very slow wind-ups, and the punch of the sentence is often buried right at the end, if at all; sometimes the information is only implied. E.g. 'Mr. Hoboeken worked for our research department for 2 years, and after a restructuring he chose to follow career opportunities outside the department.' only implies that 'We fired Mr Hoboeken'.
             Rich in neologisms: In order to accommodate for this style, many new words are created, and the meaning of existing...