{"id":837,"date":"2016-07-15T23:03:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T23:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level3-english\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=837"},"modified":"2016-10-06T20:08:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T20:08:43","slug":"outcome-voice","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-corningcc-engcomp1wmopen-1\/chapter\/outcome-voice\/","title":{"raw":"Outcome: Voice","rendered":"Outcome: Voice"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Critique the use of both active and passive voices<\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-1335\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2016\/07\/28210739\/noun_36122-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"icon of a talking head\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>Voice is a nebulous term in writing. It can refer to the general \"feel\" of the writing, or it can be used in a more technical sense.\u00a0In this course, we will focus on the latter sense as we discuss active and passive voice.\r\n\r\nYou've probably heard of the passive voice\u2014perhaps in a comment from an English teacher or in the\u00a0grammar checker of a word processor. In both of these instances, you were (likely) guided away from the passive voice. Why is this the case? Why is the passive voice so hated? After all, it's been used twice on this page already (three times now).\r\n\r\nIn this outcome, we'll learn about active and passive voices, their construction, and their correct use.\r\n<h2>What You Will Learn to Do<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Critique the use of active voice<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Critique the use of passive voice<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<h2>Critique the use of both active and passive voices<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1335\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2016\/07\/28210739\/noun_36122-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"icon of a talking head\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>Voice is a nebulous term in writing. It can refer to the general &#8220;feel&#8221; of the writing, or it can be used in a more technical sense.\u00a0In this course, we will focus on the latter sense as we discuss active and passive voice.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard of the passive voice\u2014perhaps in a comment from an English teacher or in the\u00a0grammar checker of a word processor. In both of these instances, you were (likely) guided away from the passive voice. Why is this the case? Why is the passive voice so hated? After all, it&#8217;s been used twice on this page already (three times now).<\/p>\n<p>In this outcome, we&#8217;ll learn about active and passive voices, their construction, and their correct use.<\/p>\n<h2>What You Will Learn to Do<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Critique the use of active voice<\/li>\n<li>Critique the use of passive voice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-837\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Outcome: Voice. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">Public domain content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Talking. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Lucian Dinu. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thenounproject.com\/term\/talking\/36122\/\">https:\/\/thenounproject.com\/term\/talking\/36122\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/pdm\">Public Domain: No Known Copyright<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Outcome: Voice\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"pd\",\"description\":\"Talking\",\"author\":\"Lucian Dinu\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thenounproject.com\/term\/talking\/36122\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"pd\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"6ce7889c-703a-4c6e-b2e2-f0fe02efeebd","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-837","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":756,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-corningcc-engcomp1wmopen-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-corningcc-engcomp1wmopen-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-corningcc-engcomp1wmopen-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-corningcc-engcomp1wmopen-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-corningcc-engcomp1wmopen-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-corningcc-engcomp1wmopen-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/837\/revisions\/1829"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-corningcc-engcomp1wmopen-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/756"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-corningcc-engcomp1wmopen-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/837\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-corningcc-engcomp1wmopen-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-corningcc-engcomp1wmopen-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-corningcc-engcomp1wmopen-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-corningcc-engcomp1wmopen-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}