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Attribution is important to descriptions of reality. Passive voice obscures attribution, giving a distorted or incomplete impression of reality. There are cases
by microcolonel 9y ago
Attribution is important to descriptions of reality. Passive voice obscures attribution, giving a distorted or incomplete impression of reality. There are cases where passive voice does not harm attribution, or where lack of attribution serves a purpose, but as a general rule it's worth avoiding.
- luckydata 9y agoin software specifications and jounralism fine. In prose it's lunacy and shit advice. That's the problem of the one trick pony education style we happen to have in the US. Lack of nuance from teachers is appalling. Growing up in Europe I got a much wider exposure to history, philosophy and other humanistic subjects than my american wife ever had (and ironically she's the art history major...).