When it comes to the topic of voice and tone, I personally believe that it is not all that difficult to set the proper voice and tone of a paper. While it is a much more difficult feat to fully convince your audience of what you're trying to get across, your tone and voice can be portrayed jsut how you want them to as long as you follow one simple rule. The most important rule here is to write in the same style that you would use if you were speaking.
This doesn't mean to write a paper as if it were an audible speech, but rather it is easy to speak in the proper tone and voice if you are to speak, but sometimes putting it down on paper the tone gets lost in translation. The easiest way to avoid this is to speak in the same style, only substituting words so that it makes sense in the written form.
I believe many writers think thoughts out in their head, and then transfer it to paper. One beneficial exercise I have done is to say each sentence out loud as I am brainstorming on how to craft the idea in my head into a well structured sentence i can put down on paper. So far, this exercise has proven to be the most beneficial to my writing when it comes to tone and voice.
Overall, it is a difficult topic to fully master, and Im sure I haven't even come close to learning a mastery of it. The best thing you can do is to utilize all of the exercises possible and then to try and try again. These are my thoughts on tone and voice.
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