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[camus8]

I'm going insane writing. Would you say "...for reasons earlier mentioned" or do you find a preference for "...for reasons mentioned earlier."?

Thanks.

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[brincando]

They both sound equally fine to me, but personally I would structure the sentence in a way that I could use the word aforementioned. That's just my style, though.

[camus8]

Good call. I'll see what I can do about that. But I'm making reference to something that has more distance than, say, a sentence or two before the current sentence. Aforementioned, to me, seems to have that property/feature assigned to it. But maybe it's just me. Thoughts?

[babs_da_crusha]

I don't know what you are writing for, so that makes a difference. Anytime I've used the word aforementioned, it gets crossed out immediately by advisors, profs, etc. I would choose the second sentence. It sounds better to me when read aloud.

passive vs strong

[posttrainwreck]

Neither option is particularly strong, but I'd say the second option is least passive and is probably the best.