We do not know who made the mistakes! Better would be: The politician made mistakes. Note: Infrequent and mindful use of the passive voice can be rhetorically effective or disciplinarily appropriate; ...
Think about your audience and write in the style they expect. We all have different ways of expressing ourselves in our speech and in our writing. In writing, this is sometimes called the writer ...
Academic writing is defined by conventions rather than rules and so its style varies. The point is not for you and your peers to produce identical pieces of writing , but to provide a shared framework ...
Unfortunately, overly strict rules about writing can prevent us, as writers, from being flexible enough to adapt to the writing styles of different fields. So, when it suits your purpose, you will ...
Hi! I’m Marta Chausée and today I present to you my essay, “How to Write.” Some people write sitting at their desks, some write in front of their TVs and some write while sitting on their perches, ...
I’m one of those — a bed writer. I’m doing it right now, writing this article while I sit in my comfy bed, eating cookies and drinking milk. It’s important to create a serious setting ...
Now, as a professional journalist living in London, I'm grateful to be able to use both writing styles in my work. I still enjoy the employment of descriptive language I learned in US schools ...