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In composing a doctoral capstone, student writers must balance a variety of concerns so that readers will perceive their work as clear, precise, relevant, well articulated, and appropriately targeted to the intended audience. When a work has these qualities, readers are more likely to see the writer as a reliable expert on the topic of interest. Developing these qualities in a written study means developing scholarly voice.
Through the effective deployment of scholarly voice, writers subtly convey to readers that they are qualified to produce scholarship in their area of expertise and signal that they have approached their research with precision, care, and integrity. They also indicate their membership in a community of scholars who observe norms of academic expression and presentation. These norms encompass both specific APA style rules and subtler tendencies common in what is sometimes called Academic English.
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