Writing - Friday, August 13, 2010 5:48 - 0 Comments

Passive Sentences in Scholarly Writing

As a student, you likely learned to avoid passive voice verbs at all costs to make your writing more vivid and direct for the reader. The axiom of avoiding passive sentences is so pervasive in writing courses that few question its purpose or viability as a rule. Strunk and White (2009) have this to say about the passive voice:

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