MANAGEMENT RESEARCH ARTICLES AND THE PASSIVE VOICE IN THEIR FRAMEWORK SECTIONS

Djuwari, Djuwari and Sukesi, Sukesi (2023) MANAGEMENT RESEARCH ARTICLES AND THE PASSIVE VOICE IN THEIR FRAMEWORK SECTIONS. Jilin Daxue Xuebao (Gongxueban)/Journal of Jilin University (Engineering and Technology Edition), 42 (02). ISSN 1671-5497

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Abstract

Many authors have often got notification while typing sentences on the computer and checking the grammars by using the menu of review and spelling checking. The notification often happens when the sentences are in the passive construction. It reads consider revising into active sentences. In some discussion about research journal articles, the authors also wonder whether they have to sick on active sentences. This study attempts to explore the use of passive construction written by the authors of international journals with the discipline of management science. More specifically, the sub-genres of the framework sections were taken as the sample by purposive technic. It is assumed that all he articles had undergone blind review so that they could be said homogenous in terms of their status of being the academic articles. . The data were taken by purposive sampling with certain criteria such as published in There were 14 articles with their theoretical framework sections being analyzed. The results show that passive sentences were still used by the authors in Management research articles’, this pattern is used in each paragraph for expressing general statement or topic sentences. Besides that, the authors use passive sentences for expressing the purposes or suggestions and they use these passive sentences also for reducing subjectivity.

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