Be like the editor
Sorry about this. I hate jumping on bandwagons, but it's just too easy. Again, I'm sorry.
As an editor, David is expected to avoid passive voice.
As an editor, David writes with an active voice.
As an editor, David should circumvent superfluous, esoteric vernacular.
As an editor, David uses plain English.
As an editor you will never see David write more than one thought that merges into one horrible run-on sentence that makes no sense without any commas or anything and no one understands no matter where they are from or how smart they are.
As an editor, David uses short sentences. David uses punctuation.
As an editor, the writing made no sense. While writing this, David also made a mistake by misplacing a modifier in his underpants. (Yes, the Marx pyjamas quote influenced that.)
As an editor, David makes it clear who* the subject is. David doesn't always need adverbs; but if he does use them, he makes sure they're in the right place.
*whom *rolls eyes with disdain
As an editor, David knows when to use whom and when to use who.
Yeah, yeah.
As an editor, ending sentences with prepositions isn't something David should put up with.
As an editor, David doesn't adhere to this rule. This is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which David will not put.
As an editor, David writes complete sentences.
- Unless it's a bullet point
As an Editor, he is consistent
As an editor, David is consistent.
There a many more I could list, such as subject-verb agreement, pronoun-antecedent errors, colons and semicolons but you'd stop reading. I might do a part two in a different style. Maybe.
Final thought:
If you're writing for LinkedIn, be you.