: What voice (active/passive) is most suitable for literary academic papers (literary journals)? I know that many scientific papers are expected to be written in passive voice according to APA style.

I know that many scientific papers are expected to be written in passive voice according to APA style. However, I don't know if this applies to literary papers too? Or should they be written in active voice?

In this paper, we have selected Mahmoud Dolatabadiâ€™s works to consider
this story phenomenon.

In this paper, Mahmoud Dolatabadi's works are selected to consider this story phenomenon.

? Which fits literary article writing better? I did some googling only to find out the hits were related to scientific writing in general.

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The passive voice is more professional when referring to 'self', but in the long run it gets tiring to the reader. If you need to use 'we', use passive voice instead, but whenever you can, activate other subjects and use active voice when referring to them:

In this paper a selection of Mahmoud Dolatabadi's works shows the phenomenon of this story.

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