ABSTRACT
This chapter offers some considerations about how researchers develop their voice, as well as about how they characterize and position themselves in the research report. It indicates that such characterizations typically are and should be compatible with the philosophical frames and research approaches undergirding the study. The chapter recognizes that there are differences in researcher position in the written report across the different research approaches, so the authors describe how these differences may come across in reality. Writer voice is a term that refers to authorial style or what makes the person’s writing unique and conveys attitude, personality and character. Writers should attempt to speak in a voice that both reflects their individualities and also locates them within the research and that is philosophically and methodologically appropriate. One way that researchers strive to establish a specific writing voice is to make a distinction between direct and indirect writing.
