Re: [Phys-L] passive or active voice

[marx@phy.ilstu.edu]

I much prefer passive voice and demand my students learn to write in it.  Many of today's 
journals do not seem to mind active voice, but my belief is that the focus should be on the 
experiment and not on the particular experimenters.  Therefore, writing "The temperature of 
the water was measured using a liquid-in-glass thermometer and found to be 150 C." is 
better than "John found the temperature of the water was 150 C when he measured it using 
the thermometer."



On 11 Sep 2013 at 16:06, Bill Nettles wrote:

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> When you have students write a report of an experimental activity, do you expect them to write primarily in active voice, passive voice, or do you let them choose?
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