What is it about?
We advocate writing with the active voice: The agent of the sentence precedes a vigorous verb to make it short and precise. The passive voice puts the patient at the beginning of the sentence and the agent is either missing or obscure.
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Why is it important?
Writing well helps clarify your thoughts that in turn helps your reader understand your work.
Perspectives
Writing active sentences is much harder than passive sentences. After a while you will get used to it and then passive sentences will become annoying!
Prof Gregory S Patience
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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This page is a summary of: How do you write and present research well? 2 -Replace 007 with an explicit agent, The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, October 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.22326.
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