Views on the use of active and passive voice in English academic writing vary from country to country and from discipline to discipline. Which country are you based in, and does your discipline favour the active or the passive voice, or a mixture, when writing journal articles in English? Would colleagues who write in a different language also like to share their experience?
Thank you very much, Harshvardhan and Chalamala. I think a corpus study of voice in English writing by English L1 writers in different disciplines in different countries would be very interesting too.
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