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This post continues a series on principles of scientific writing, as proposed by Gopen and Swan (1990). We've already covered the first three principles (to understand the material in this post, you need to read the previous material starting...
Active versus Passive Voice
We are discussing some principles of scientific writing as proposed by Gopen and Swan (1990). But let's make a brief detour at this point to consider active versus passive voice. In our previous examples, we did some...
In the last post, we covered the first principle of scientific writing dealing with subject-verb separation. We are using an example of scientific writing (an abstract) selected randomly from the literature to examine principles of writing proposed by...
We're talking about the principles of scientific writing introduced by Gopen and Swan (1990). In contrast to rules of grammar, these principles are meant to be guidelines that the author uses in accordance with the writing situation and goals. As we...
This post continues the series on writing, but focuses more specifically on scientific writing. Before your eyes glaze over, let me hasten to add that this will not be your routine discussion of grammar, punctuation, and style. I’m assuming that...
