Passive voice

Without having one’s own voice along with the voices of scholars and outside sources, there is nothing to be proven. The point of many formal essays is to bring your own idea to the table, then either support or disprove that idea with the voices of scholars and people knowledgeable about the subject. Looking at how I integrated the quotes within my essay, I did a decent job at making…

After reviewing my paper on social media usage (Synthesis 1), I noticed some mistakes in my writing style. Fortunately, this class has taught me the skills in order to identify and solve these common errors found in my paper and have the knowledge to fix them. Overall, I think that my paper was well thought out and supported, but needed help mechanically to make the paper sound more professional. In order to help me revise my own paper, I decided that I needed a few fresh pairs of eyes to…

Composition one has helped me grow as a writer and has taught me skills I can use in the future. I have learned how to use commas, passive voice, semicolons, and format a paper in MLA. From my first essay to my last one, it is noticeable that a major improvement has been made. I did not know that even after teacher feedback that you needed to revise your own work. Although I have learned many skills, I believe that the most valuable one is how to revise my essays. When I got my first feedback…

writing.” This quote is showing how political writings are unclear and contradicting. Some of the ways that Orwell suggests to fix this problem is to never use a long word where a short one will do, cut out words if possible, and use active voice rather than passive voice. Another problem Orwell found was that many writings seem to lack meaning. In his essay Orwell says, “In certain kinds of writing...it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.”…

Throughout the semester, this course has challenged me to approach topics I was already familiar with in new ways which I may have never explored previously. Though I have always found pleasure in reading and writing, this semester has helped me to find new strategies for approaching reading and writing assignments that may seem more arduous and mundane in nature than the creative writing and free reading that I enjoy. I have certainly found that this semester has significantly improved my…

Fischetti wrote in passive voice, with the exception of quoting Masters in talking about hurricanes in general. It was necessary for Masters to give a understanding and foundation of how hurricanes work in which he used an active voice, but Masters would use passive voice when he applied that information to the status of Hurricane Harvey. For example, Nguyen and Masters discussed how Harvey produced…

Using Grammarly and SafeAssign as a means of academic integrity Initial post Nowadays there are many ways to maintain academic integrity. Two such ways used at Walden University are Grammarly and SafeAssign. There are other sites that help format and check grammar on the world-wide web. Paperater is another site I have recently tried that has some advantages. The APA Manual is also helpful in learning how to write properly as well as using citations. I believe these resources will help me…

writing, Othello, depicts his ideas that we now learn from. How jealousy can cause all destruction; ruin relationships and trust. Even to set out to get revenge can backfire atrociously. Furthermore the roles in gender, have portrayed women as being passive. In Shakespeare’s play Othello, he tries to break the barriers that women should be submissive. The women in Othello were depicted to being assets of the men, Shakespeare tries to break the barriers that women should be submissive. Women and…

her mature façade through the switch from active voice to passive voice. Phrases such as, “she had had enough” sound like a “mathematician” rather than “an imaginist”. Passive voice provides a more relaxed, grounded tone as opposed to the livelier tone from the earlier paragraphs. The switch in tone also mirrors the actions being described. As opposed to joyful descriptions that used active voice along with exclamatory sentences, these passive voice, declarative sentences explain carefully…

In the past, I never learned how to distinguish between passive voice and active voice, so I became accustomed to writing in either style. Although I am now aware of the differences between active and passive voice, I still find myself writing in passive voice because of habit. However, I plan to work on this by rearranging all of my sentences to all be active when I am revising my assignments. Another clarity…