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Q&A Is the following piece of text comprehensible and written in good style?

Well, let's start... Specifically, this post You just lost us. "This post" often means "an external piece to which I am linking" or "some text which is going to follow shortly," rather than ...

posted 11y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-13T12:00:12Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/6280
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T02:30:29Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/6280
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T02:30:29Z (over 4 years ago)
Well, let's start...

> Specifically, this post

You just lost us. "This post" often means "an external piece to which I am linking" or "some text which is going to follow shortly," rather than "this question you're reading."

> is a piece of text submitted for critique and, in addition, explains what I am trying to achieve.

Redundant, but okay in context.

> This situation was driving down our productivity rate and so he established a formal approach to deal with the problem.

Which is? and relates to us and this post how?

Here also I feel like something's missing. It reads like you're building up to asking something specific, or presenting a chunk of text, and then you overshoot it completely and move on to the footnotes (the reference material). So you've described a problem but you haven't actually showed us what it is.

Your writing seems to be reasonably clear in general. You might have to post something else for us to look at, or give us an example of something your advisor balked at.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2012-08-30T21:34:39Z (over 11 years ago)
Original score: 6