Nominalization and My Writing Style

Throughout my college career, I have not noticed the presence of nominals. Of course, I just learned about them this week too, so I have not had much time to search for them in the texts I am reading. However, as a science major, I'm sure that there are nominals used everywhere. Scientific writing is made a concise as possible, and I think that the use of nominals would help decrease the word count and bring the point across more quickly and clearly. I do not have any examples yet, but if I come across some interesting ones, I will post them.

I do not know if this class has already affected my writing style, but I do know that I am much more aware about what I am putting down on paper. I am constantly second-guessing myself. Unfortunately, a lot of the second-guessing comes in the form of trying to mentally diagram the sentences I read or write; this takes way too much time which would be better spent doing other things. It's almost more annoying than helpful right now. However, I think that with time I will stop looking at the details, and I believe that I will noticably improve my writing style by the time the course is over.