| Read the sentences below | What do you think and feel when you read a poorly written paper? What assumptions do you make about the author? | How would you change these sentences to improve academic voice and tone? |
| I believe that social psychology is an interesting subject. Its fun and intriguing, and the experiments that old researchers did were ridiculous! You can’t get away with that kind of thing today, what with the IRBs and ethics comittees. Even so, social psychology is still an interesting field with lots to learn. |