Use the active voice:

- It’s better to use the active voice in writing. It’s what we use normally when talking
- Subject, verb, object (ex: “she throws the ball”)
- Active voice: the person/thing doing the action (agent) comes before the verb. The thing acted
upon (recipient) comes after the verb
- Passive voice: recipient, the thing that’s acted upon, is moved before the verb and the agent.
The agent is moved after the verb or omitted
- Passive: recipient, verb, agent (ex: “the ball is thrown by her)
- Passive tone is used to avoid claiming responsibility for your actions
- Passive verbs always have a verb to be “is”, “are”, was”, “were”, “be”, “did”, or “am”. It also has
a verb in the past tense that must take an object (transitive).
- Passive tone can be used. It works well in the method section.

Is it ok to use “we” and “I”:

- It is ok to use we and i
- Removing them does not make the paper more objective
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