Rules for Writers Chapter 8

     Writing with active verbs can help bring your writing to life and have more impact on your reader. It will help emphasize action words in a story maybe a narrative or descriptive essay. You would want to use active verbs when writing about a main character or actor. Its good to "make the actor the subject of the sentence" (pg 81) and you do this by using active verbs.

     Using passive verbs works as well but in different situations. For example when writing a research paper or a scientific paper passive verbs sometimes work best. Passive verbs or passive writing can be more wordy than active ones so using active can make your writing more effective but simple at the same time.

     I plan to use this information to help clarify my writing. I think in my writings in the past I would jump from active to passive within one paragraph but maybe it would be better to stick with one. I will try in our next relevant writing assignment and see how it reads.