Scientific Writing Services

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Active Voicev/sPassive VoiceIn
Scientific Writing
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• What is the primary purpose of
• scientific writing?

To convey information

• clearly,
• concisely,
• objectively

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What do scientific writers across the globe agree
upon?

• Clear, simple, straightforward writing should be
  the goal of every science writer
• Direct, action verbs are better than verbs of
  being , whatever be the voice.

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Review of the terms

• Active voice the subject in the sentence
  performs an action e.g. Harry ate six shrimp at
  dinner
• Passive voice the subject in the sentence
  receives the action e.g. At dinner, six shrimp
  were eaten by Harry

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Advantages of Active Voice in Scientific Writing

• Emphasizes the authors responsibility
• E.g. The entire stretch of the highway was
  paved by the crew (passive)
• v/s
• The crew paved the entire stretch of the
  highway (active)

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Increases Readability of the content
E.g. The hair loss was caused by Vitamin A
(passive) v/s Vitamin A caused hair loss
(active)
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Reduces ambiguity in writing

• E.g. To investigate the source of nutrients,
  eggshell membranes were compared (passive)
• v/s
• To investigate the source of nutrients, we
  compared the eggshell membranes (active)

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Advantages of Passive Voice in Scientific Writing

• Emphasizes the result, not who did the experiment
• E.g. We found that annealing the films at high
  temperature increased the voids (active)
• v/s
• Voids were increased by annealing the films at
  high temperature (passive)

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Presents the findings in a neutral, clear,
straightforward way

• E.g. We found that 90 of the energy in light
  bulbs is wasted in the form of heat (active)
• v/s
• About 90 of the energy in light bulbs is wasted
  in the form of heat (passive)

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Take-away messages for scientific writers

• 1 Choose the
• active voice
• whenever possible

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2 Use passive voice when

• The performer of the action is unknown
• The performer of the action is less important
  than the action
• When you want to focus on the action rather than
  the performer

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3 Decide what you want to emphasize and put
important stuff first
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4 Use simple language and short sentences
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5 Strive for clarity and conciseness rather than
fretting over voice
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