26: The Passive Voice Should Be Avoided, by Collin Gifford Brooke

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "The Passive Voice Should Be Avoided" by Collin Gifford Brooke (https://thecollege.syr.edu/people/faculty/brooke-collin-gifford/). It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Keywords: active voice, cohesion, grammar, mechanics, passive voice, sentences

Collin Gifford Brooke is an associate professor in the writing program at Syracuse University. He studies the impact of contemporary technology on writing and language. He has taught college level writing for nearly 25 years. (2017 bio)

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Watch me edit a mis-spoken error in this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/cvFy0C8QuGs