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Active v. Passive Voice
Tone
Voice/ Point-of-View (pov)
Perspective Personal Pronoun
That is a large stack of papers.
Get into groups of 3-4
Amongst yourselves, decide what rhetoric means.
Now decide what writerly reading means.
That stack of papers is huge.
Common
Writing Mistakes
to Avoid.
A verb is in the passive voice when the subject of the sentence is acted on by the verb. For example, in “The ball was thrown by the pitcher,” the ball (the subject) receives the action of the verb, and was thrown is in the passive voice. The same sentence cast in the active voice would be, “The pitcher threw the ball.”
- First (I, me)
- Second (You, your)
- Third (We, they)
That stack of papers is too big.
That stack of papers is big as a building.
Commas
Clear, Direct Language
Contractions
Be Explicit
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.
Additionally, | On the other hand, | To conclude, | As was previously mentioned,
....is an example of the intentional fallacy, or the mistaken belief that anything an author creates must be a personal representation.
Would not/ will not
Could not
Do not
Won't
Couldn't
Don't
Don’t assume readers understand technical terms, define them.
Don't assume readers grasp the context; tell readers where your evidence comes from, why it’s relevant, and what it means.
Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote "The Raven," is a great American poet.
Use commas with
- Introductory phrases
- Non-restrictive
modifiers
- After ‘but’
- In lists
When possible, avoid unspecific words
- This
- That
- It
- He/she/the author
Improving is hard work, but it gets easier if you practice every day.
American literary scholars Wimsat & Beardsly coined this term in 1946 as part of the New Criticism movement, which advocated a method of reading that could both objectively appreciate the beauty of an text, while academically critiquing its efficacy.
There are primary, secondary, and tertiary sources.