Posted by Jay Livingston
My brother volunteers as a reader of audiobooks. His latest assignment was a methods text – Research Methods in Social Relations, 8th edition (Geoffrey Maruyama and Carey S. Ryan, Wiley, 2014). In the last chapter, on p. 511, he read this:
| The use of the first person and the active voice is now preferred over the third person and the passive voice. The past tense is used when reporting the past research of others and in describing your own procedures. The present tense is used to discuss results currently in front of the reader ... |
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