Editing Written language (section)

=== Information packaging ===
[[Information packaging]] is the way that information is packaged within a sentence, that is the linear order in which information is presented. For example, ''On the hill, there was a tree'' has a different informational structure than ''There was a tree on the hill''. While, in English, at least, the second structure is more common, the first example is relatively much more common in written language than in spoken language. Another example is that a construction like ''it was difficult to follow him'' is relatively more common in written language than in spoken language, compared to the alternative packaging ''to follow him was difficult''.{{sfnp|Smolka|2017}} A final example, again from English, is that the [[passive voice]] is relatively more common in writing than in speaking.{{sfnp|Biber|Johansson|Leech|Conrad|1999|p=938}}