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Classic Style ​

Demonstrate

The writer can see something that the reader has not yet noticed, and he orients the reader's gaze so that she can see it for herself.

You're already performing beta elements, you've just never labelled them before.

Beta is a description

They are currently capable of performing all beta, there are no prerequisites to performing beta. Know how beta works requires knowledge of many fields of science: geology, kinesiology, biology, psychology, physics, meteorology...

Steven Pinker The Sense of Style: A Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

Cambridge grammar 2002 Huddleston

Show don't tell

Reader and writer are intellectual equals

Show user how they can use the information, instead of telling them what to do.

Exposition ​

Introductory Paragraph ​

See how this can develop into that ​