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Passive Voice

Active/Passive Voice, Writing /

The passive voice is often maligned by teachers and professors as a bad writing habit. Or, to put it in the active voice, teachers and professors across the English-speaking world malign the passive voice as a bad writing habit. What is the passive voice? In general, the active voice makes your writing stronger, more direct, and, you

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5 Writing “Rules” That Are Really Guidelines

Adjectives and Adverbs, Craft, Literary Elements, Writing /

If you go in search of rules about writing, you’ll find plenty. Some rules you come across will be quite specific, like whether or not to use a comma with a conjunction, and others will be broad, like Strunk and White’s brief but vague directive to “omit needless words.” But when it comes to great writing, not

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