Fair point, though in my creative writing class most of the same points were taught and emphasized.

Especially "show, don't tell".

For example:

- don't say "He's really good at distributed databases."

- say "He pondered over how to handle multi-master write conflicts. The answer came to him in the shower: CRDTs"

OP said “([present] or [argue) a point in writing]”.

I naturally group that using the square brackets above, not the parens. If you use parens, it’s writing only. With the square bracket grouping, it includes speaking tips.

Fair enough.