Instructional Note: Style in Advanced Composition: Acttive Students and Passive Voices

Teaching English in the Two-Year College May 1999

Instructional Note: Style in Advanced Composition: Acttive Students and Passive Voices

Craig Frischkorn

Abstract

Argues that, as decision makers, students must sort out their rhetorical contexts to determine whether a sentence needs the active voice or the passive voice. Notes that one source for finding realistic sample sentences for learning about the passive voice is the daily newspaper, and offers examples from the business section, sports page, political reporting, and columns.

Journal: Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published: 1999-05-01
DOI: 10.58680/tetyc19991845
Open Access: Closed
Topics: voice and style

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