{"id":940,"date":"2016-04-14T15:58:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T15:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level1-english\/?post_type=chapter&p=940"},"modified":"2017-01-24T18:08:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T18:08:22","slug":"outcome-voice-4-8","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level1-english-gen\/chapter\/outcome-voice-4-8\/","title":{"raw":"Outcome: Voice","rendered":"Outcome: Voice"},"content":{"raw":"

Identify the Active and Passive Voices, as Well as the Reasons to Use Both<\/h2>\r\nVoice 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\nTeachers can\u00a0get fired up about voice in writing. You may have had a frustrated (and frustrating?) professor write on your paper \u201cUse passive voice!\u201d or \u201cAvoid passive voice!\u201d during your studies.\u00a0Most automated\u00a0grammar checkers will be happy to flag and condemn all passive sentences for you. Further, your English textbook might suggest that the active sentence \u201cJack hit the baseball\u201d is better than the passive sentence \u201cThe baseball was hit by Jack.\u201d As well-intentioned as they might be, these tidbits of advice don\u2019t help much, do they? You are not likely to have anyone named Jack hitting any baseballs in your papers, and obviously both <\/em>passive and active voice are powerful tools in the right hands.\r\n\r\nIn this outcome, we will examine both the active voice and the passive voice, and we will determine just when to use each.\r\n

What You Will Learn to Do<\/h2>\r\n