How and Why to use Active Voice in Social Science Writing

Image by Andrew Toskin What is passive voice? Passive voice is a grammatical construction where the subject receives the action rather than performing it. In other words, it puts the thing that is being done before the thing that is doing it (such as this sentence). Active voice is when the author starts the sentenceContinueContinue reading “How and Why to use Active Voice in Social Science Writing”

Writing Tip: Self-Disclosure

  Recently a reader who was enjoying the way I handled my own self-disclosure in The Polyamorists Next Door (where I talk about how my interactions with the polyamorous community affected my life and my research) contacted me to ask if I had an opinion about how zie might handle self-disclosure in zir own writingContinueContinue reading “Writing Tip: Self-Disclosure”