Earlier this fall a headline in The Atlantic caught my eye. “The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing,” it said. Promising enough on its own, but there was also a subhead: “A new movement strives ...
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You may already have heard about the passive voice. It works well in some instances, but you don’t want to use it all the time. But you also won’t want to overuse “to be” in general because that can ...
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