An Open Letter.
Dear Chris:
I really think that the research descriptions need to be divorced from game terms, even as they still reference them. For example, saying "something something something on the aliens' turn" is kind of immersion-breaking. Rephrasing it as, "something something something allowing our soldiers to act far more quickly" gives the same message while retaining immersion. Bear in mind that this is just an example and I feel that anywhere that game-mechanics are referenced in research files should be expunged. If you want, have a separate section after the report description or beside it or something that lays out everything in mechanics terms, kind of like the UFOpaedia.
Thanks much and regards,
Assoonasitis and anybody else that thinks this is a pretty rad idea