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: Ouch ... now that I read the above, I notice how mean it sounds in print. My sincere apologies to the writer of the entry!--[[User:Lemuellio|Lemuellio]] ([[User talk:Lemuellio|talk]]) 04:52, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

== Academic/Scientific Writing ==

Academic writing in the sciences such as dissertations and journal submissions follow many of these rules. For example double spacing sentences and not using contractions. You can check guidelines for submitting articles to Royal Society of Chemistry Journals. Scientific writing is also supposed to be written in passive voice. Furthermore Shakespeare was a poet? author? so why is his grammar being used to prove misconceptions? Authors have poetic license to do as they please it would similar to saying sentences do not need to be capitalized because e e cummings wrote without capitalizing his works.

[[Special:Contributions/163.118.206.80|163.118.206.80]] ([[User talk:163.118.206.80|talk]]) 06:03, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

:"Scientific writing is also supposed to be written in passive voice."

:The American Psychological Association prefers the active voice: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/15/ [[User:Airborne84|Airborne84]] ([[User talk:Airborne84|talk]]) 22:01, 13 December 2013 (UTC)