And I assure you, engineers don’t give a single fuck about the “readability” of these reports.
Before stepping away from engineering, most of my “writing” was strictly technical — lab reports and research papers in college, and then work/procedural reports at my job. And I assure you, engineers don’t give a single fuck about the “readability” of these reports. For most of them, “quality” is determined by factual accuracy, and not even bad grammar is frowned upon as long as the information gets across.