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Active Voice: A Great Way to Keep Writing Crisp

Written on January 8, 2010 in The Craft of Writing
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a “Verbal Knightcap” by Robert M. Knight, AIW Board Member
The use of active voice might be the least understood element in English that most people think they understand. They understand even less when they get the use of active voice confused with the use of action verbs. And many do. Many editors can’t keep them [...]

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The Gap that Shouldn’t Be: Journalistic Writing Versus Everyone Else’s

Written on November 3, 2009 in The Craft of Writing
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a “Verbal Knightcap” by Robert M. Knight, AIW Board Member
A long time ago, mainstream writing and journalistic writing said goodbye to each other, and English has been poorer ever since. Each has much to learn from the other, but I maintain that mainstream writers can learn more from journalistic writing than the other way around. [...]

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