Saturday, May 5, 2018

style - Are contractions antithetical to academic writing?


This question is very specific to academic writing:


I used the contraction "don't" instead of "do not" in some of the papers. Some of the reviewers mentioned that "don't" is not a formal style of writing. I wonder the reasons - I see pretty much every writer use it. What makes "don't" so informal over "do not"?




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