The whole active/passive voice issue strikes me as the best single example of how academic writing is not designed to ever actually be readhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/981018482132135936 …
Pretty much every journal article I've ever read slips into passive voice for at least a paragraph or two. Not a single media article ever does Wonder why??
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Even when I'm writing blogs I sometimes struggle not to slip into the passive voice, because at uni it was tacitly encouraged even while denounced
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Actually, good point. I think it's more how it's used than whether? Usually it's used to convey facts rather than as the voice of an entire piece
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