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”
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Another Satisfied Coaching Client!
One of my academic coaching clients wrote this lovely testimonial: ******************************************************* Dr. Eli Sheff provided very thorough and high caliber quality services to my dissertation writing project. She is highly conversant with not only rigorous academic writing process, but also with multidisciplinary academic literature. Her scholarly advice was both empirically-based and theoretically supported, andContinueContinue reading “Another Satisfied Coaching Client!”
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”
Another Satisfied Customer
With permission, I am reposting a comment from a satisfied customer: Eli did an exceptional job of taking my unruly research document and turning it into an excellent manuscript that was accepted by a professional journal for publication. It was my first attempt at getting my work published and found Eli to be extremely patient,ContinueContinue reading “Another Satisfied Customer”