Most style guides recommend the active voice over the passive voice, and most readers prefer it. But in some academic fields, especially the sciences, authors use a stilted and awkward style that replaces clear concise sentences like, "We performed the experiment," with circumlocutions like "The...
You can see in the screenshot below, for example, that the passive voice checker is turned off for documents categorized as academic papers. On Grammarly, you can apply broad-strokes goals to each article (more on that in a bit), but you toggle the settings on and off universally. ...
Casual is for writers who prefer long sentences, writing in passive voice with split infinitives and informal pronouns. Creative bend the grammar rules to a certain degree. Fiction authors may opt for this type of writing style. Although the Grammarly Editor’s spell checker and identifying grammar...
Luckily, Grammarly can provide corrections for simple sentences written in passive voice. Check out its recommendations for the example sentences above: To avoid the excessive use of passive voice, here are a few writing tips you ought to remember: Avoid using the word “by” when describing an...
Style errors, for example, using the passive voice, orcolloquial phrasesin a formal document. Grammarly Premium says it runs 400+ checks on your writing! “Readability” (Or, What Are You Trying To Tell Me?) Readability is the difference between a reader enjoying your writing or quitting in...
Scratch that: do you use the passive voice in your writing? Active voice is stronger and more direct, and it’s often the better choice. Curb Your Writing Style Honing means making your style concise and clear. Curbing it means getting rid of bad habits. In general, you should check ...
This is not the usual tone in academic writing. If these statements were re-phrased as claims or hypotheses (and defended), more linguists would be inclined to set out to test them, and if such strong statements really proved to be justified they would be most impressed and interested. The...
On Writing: Passive Voice and Presentation Passive voice sucks the energy out of writing like a lamprey. My next writing assignment in an interdisciplinary seminar I’m teaching is to have students write an essay without using the passive voice. Use of the passive voice will result in a lett...
to know, as I look at this process, is whether I am on track. You wouldn’t think, would you, that because life ends in death, there would be a good way to approach it and a bad way, but anyone who lives in a community of old people, as I do, knows that is not the case....
Laraine Herring: The Writing Warrior: Discovering the Courage to Free Your True VoiceIf you take an holistic approach to creativity (I do) you'll find much to like in Herring's suggested writing practice, and the thoughtful, story-rich anecdotes about the ever-cycling nature of writing. Herri...