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I post questions on stackexchange sites and I'd like them to sound more professional. However, they usually start like this:
How can I make my questions sound more professional? Is there a better way to think of the question or is there just something mechanical I need to do differently? |
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Is fine for many contexts.
Is more formal and its precise meaning is closer to what you probably mean; you aren't asking how I or any other reader does something, you're asking how any person would, and so the indefinite personal pronoun one is appropriate. However, some consider it stuffy. Also, if you aren't used to it, it can be easy to fall into hypercorrections where you use it where you, I or they are more appropriate.
You used it above, so it came naturally to you. It's what you really want to know with most SE questions; how you can do something. It works for both formal and informal registers, and so is appropriate for both professional and chatty cases, and SE which is a strange mixture of the two. |
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How to bake cookies?for example is ambiguous to me. – pure_code Feb 15 at 20:09