This tendency to use the passive voice in academic writing and speaking is part of the reason why academic writing is rarely read by non-academics. Personally I think that's completely wrong.
Now, in the past, some academics have felt that use of passive voice was appropriate in scholarly writing, because it made it seem scholarly and it took the emphasis off of the scientist and put it more on the action or on the finding of the science. Because you have to do this mental work to figure out who is the person, or the organization, or the government agency who is doing the action. That makes it much more difficult to read and to process especially if you're hearing it. You have the object coming first and you have to wait to figure out who the subject is, who's doing the action. Now, notice that the passive voice is flipped around from the natural order. So in this case with might be, blood levels were measured by the county health department. You can convey the same information in a less clear way if you happen to use passive voice, and passive voice sentences reverse that, it flips it around, so that the subject of the sentence, the first part of the sentence that we see or hear is in fact not the actor but the object of the action. Who's measuring blood levels? The county health department is. So for example, the county health department measured blood levels. the actor and the sentence be the same thing. So, what do I mean by that? So, active voice sentences are sentences that have the subject of the sentence i.e. Specifically using the active voice, instead of passive voice when you're writing. So now, we're going to talk about ways to make your writing or you're speaking clearer, sentence by sentence. Foundational Skills for Communicating About Health Course Transcript
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