The passive voice and comprehensibility of biomedical texts: An experimental study with 2 cohorts of chiropractic students.

CONCLUSION: The texts written in the active voice were not more comprehensible than texts written in the passive voice. The results of this study do not support editorial guidelines that favor active voice over passive voice. PMID: 30070902 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30070902?dopt=Abstract

Source: The Journal of Chiropractic Education - August 2, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Millar N, Budgell BS Tags: J Chiropr Educ Source Type: research

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