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You're right, Tropple, any good technical writer will tell you that the active voice rules. Unfortunately, however, there are some old stooges (they particularly tend to accumulate around Physics buildings) who still insist on the passive voice, and if they're marking your papers, sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and use it.
Soma, if you're using *shudder* Word, the word count feature will give you the proportion of passive sentences in your paper. It's OK to have a couple (some sentences just look stupid when you make them active voice), but if a large proportion of your paper is active voice, it's probably time to go back, revise, and check the word count again.
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