Few medical journals specifically instruct authors to use the active voice and avoid the passive voice, but advice to that effect is common in the large number of stylebooks and blogs aimed at medical and scientific writers. Such advice typically revolves around arguments that the passive voice is less clear, less direct, and less concise than the active voice, that it conceals the identity of ...

This close reading of the public persona outlines how high-profile war photojournalist Lynsey Addario articulated ‘it’s what I do’ in her Instagram account construed as an ongoing digital memoir. Addario’s profile and formal journalistic memoir, It’s What Do: A Photographer’s Life Love War (2015), are fluid continuums different forms features that support, authenticate, promote work persona, us...

This article proposes an understanding of the writer’s social commitment based on Jean Paul Sartre’s approaches (1950) and Hispanic-American authors; such as Juan Goytisolo, Fernando Taborda, Rubén Sierra Carlos Osorio, both them problematize this concept reflect about dynamics conditions to which writer is subject. Those conceptions enter into a dialogue with figures Hernando Téllez Eduardo Ca...

User-generated contents (UGC) such as online reviews are inherently incomplete since we do not capture the opinions of users who do not write a review. These silent users may have systematically different online experiences than those who speak up. These differences can be driven by users‟ differing sentiments towards their online experiences as well as their disposition to generate UGC. Indisc...