Use Of The Passive Voice In Medical Journal Articles

In defense of the passive voice in medical writing - PubMed

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Few medical journals specifically instruct authors to use the active voice and avoid the passive voice, but advice to that effect is common in the large number of stylebooks and blogs aimed at medical and scientific writers. Such advice typically revolves around …

Use of the Passive Voice | JAMA | JAMA Network

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Experienced readers of medical prose know that their colleagues exert no such judgment. They just use the passive voice all the time. The reasons, given in detail …

‘Use the active voice whenever possible’: The Impact of …

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Use of the Passive voice in Medical JoUrnal articles

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A common criticism of medical writing is excessive use of the passive voice, but there are no published data on its frequency in medical journal articles. The purpose of this …

Use of the Passive voice in Medical JoUrnal articles

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Thus, style guidelines in journals and generic guides for medical writing may explicitly (or implicitly) discourage use of the passive. Yet, the passive voice is used …

Passive Voice in Scientific Writing - Duke University

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The key use of passive voice is to switch the order of the subject and object. It is important to have the correct backwards-linking information at the beginning of the sentence. This …

Reconsidering the Use of the Passive Voice in Scientific …

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Papers written in the active voice are concise and clear, although they are also considered colloquial and unsophisticated. Those written in the passive voice, in turn, are centered on the...

Medical journals: Stop being so passive - Harvard Health

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In passive voice, the subject is acted on, or doesn’t appear at all, as in “Mistakes were made.” In her book Breathing Life into Medical Writing, author Anitra …

In Defense of the Passive Voice in Medical Writing - J …

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Such advice typically revolves around arguments that the passive voice is less clear, less direct, and less concise than the active voice, that it conceals the identity of the person(s) …

Use the Passive Voice! | JAMA | JAMA Network

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However, in their zeal to obey they neglect to notice that like all advice ("Buy tax-free municipal bonds!"), it is more appropriate in some cases than in others. They also fail to …