Is academic writing less passivized? Corpus-based evidence from research article abstracts in applied linguistics over the past three decades (1990–2019)
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-022-04498-0
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Academic writing; The passive voice; Abstract; Personal pronoun actives;All these keywords.
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