#heartily #agree. Its time to lay #passive voice to rest!http://slate.me/1NDuD4o

#heartily #agree. Its time to lay #passive voice to rest!

http://slate.me/1NDuD4o


Why Scientists Need to Give Up on the Passive Voice
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As a group, scientists are not widely admired for their prose style. To no small extent, this derives from their insistence on the passive voice, that boogeyman of basic composition classes. Nevertheless, the style has its defenders: Two experts in scientific style recently took to Reddit to debate…