Stance is essentially the attitude towards your writing. In engineering-style writing, your stance should be firm and shown throughout the writing your topic. This means you can be in favor of or neutral towards your writing. In the beginning of the class, I struggled to clearly express my stance in my writing. One particular assignment that stood out to me with this improvement was the technical description. Our stance here was to be neutral and informative, which had me revising the document over 10 times, each time finding more and more bias written throughout. 

Figure 6: A picture of a deleted conclusion paragraph containing a biased stance.

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