Creative Grammatical Voices in Science

SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING

ACTIVE VOICE
e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them.

PASSIVE VOICE
e.g. Samples were collected and tested.

PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE
e.g.
We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job.

CLICKBAIT VOICE
e.g. We collected some samples... You won’t believe what happened next!

HAIKU VOICE
e.g.
Quiet science lab.
Workers arrive
with samples.
The testing begins.

CONSPIRACY VOICE
e.g.
Mysterious “samples” were harvested and covertly “tested” by so-called scientists.