Sunday, February 21, 2016

Local Revision: Passive and Active Voice

Voice Type:
Active (Specific)
Active (General)
Passive
Verb:
Exposing
Firing
Having
Hiding
Being
Leading
Finding
Doing
Causing
Arguing
Trying
Losing
Mentioning
Would
Happening
Working
Admitting
Damaging
Purchasing
Making
Covering
Apologizing
Impacting
Goes
Discovering
According
Taking
Occurring
Begin
Investigate
Tells
Involved
Continuing/Continue
Plays
Says
Leading
Resigning
Showing
Stating
Affecting
Believing
Facing
Serving
Seen
Selling
Told

This took a while to finish and was a little tricky. Here are my responses:

1. The actions in my quick reference guide are mostly general. The actions in the piece are mostly general and not specific. This gives a little vivid description, but needs to be more detailed. There are a few instances of the passive voice, which I noticed in my work. These are all things I need to improve on, as the voice of my project does not use more effective verbs to give a better description. Instead of using general actions, I need to replace a lot of the verbs with more specific verbs to give a better description to readers.


2. I could definitely less vague verbs in my project to overall help improve my project. In addition to using more descriptive verbs, I should try to avoid using the same general verbs. This would in effect make writing of my project less general and more detailed.


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