How does academic writing achieve objectivity?

One of the main goals of academic writing is to achieve objectivity. This means that the writer must present information in a way that is unbiased and free from

Joseph Robbins10/09/20220 minutes read

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To appear objective, omit emotional adjectives (for example, funny, fabulous, impressive, horrible, ridiculous) and superlative adjectives (for example, the best, the worst, the most interesting) from your writing, for example, the idea that intelligent life exists on Venus or Mars is a ridiculous conspiracy.

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