Whether you write on a part- or full-time basis, you can benefit from becoming more familiar with an often-overlooked aspect of writing that is treated in today’s column: active and passive voice ...

So, you’ve gotten your graded essay back, and you weren’t exactly content with the results. Perhaps you’ve gone through the in-line comments that your GSI left you, or perhaps you’re wondering what ...

Early in the graphic novel Superman: Earth One (by J. Michael Straczynski; DC Comics, 2010), as Clark Kent interviews at the Early in the graphic novel Superman: Earth One (by J. Michael Straczynski; ...

Conventional wisdom about writing: "Do not use the passive voice." The passive voice, simply expressed: "B" was caused by "A." The active voice: "A" caused "B." The passive voice deadens communication ...

"We applied an external magnetic field of 4 T while increasing the pressure to 300 kPa." or "An external magnetic field of 4 T was applied as the pressure was increased to 300 kPa." Which is the ...

How to find and rewrite instances of passive voice in your Microsoft Word documents Your email has been sent Passive speech is awkward and sometimes hard to understand. Let Word find your passive ...