Essays on Active Voice

CDC (2012) defines social media as online communication tools that facilitate exchange of information, interaction, engagement, and sharing of ideas and other content over networks. In the recent past, the use of social has gained immense popularity, and the healthcare industry has not been left behind. Disease prevention through health promotion depends heavily on shared information, as the information empowers the public on issues affecting their health. Information access has been revolutionalized by social media, and as Heldman, Schindelar & Weaver (2013) posits, it is imperative to take the information to the people. 67% of internet users are active users ...

Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summaries For any business professional to succeed and become a competent and successful professional, he must possess good communication skills. Communication skills such as written communication, oral communication, and interpersonal communication are necessary to survive in today’s competitive era. The same fact also stands true for accounting professionals. According to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), communication skills are and will remain in future as important a skill as any other professional skill. AICPA lists “effective business writing” as a necessary skill for competence in public accounting. Unfortunately, some of the entry level accountants do ...

Introduction.

When teaching science, instructors use a specialized language that has many dissimilarities from the language that students generally use throughout the day (O’Toole, 2003). Each different occasion for language has a set of intrinsic purposes, values and characteristics, and the purpose of these different traits is to demonstrate the unique properties of that category of language. For example, in scientific language, there is an emphasis on precision in diction, as well as conciseness and clarity. No matter what the language is, writers hope to achieve a style that is comprehensible to its readers while remaining true to the aims of the ...

It is important to study about language and verbal behavior because it helps understand other people in a better way. Language or verbal behavior is defined as an operant behavior, which is strengthened by other people’s mediation (Skinner, 1957). This can be well explained as a practical relationship existing between the behavior of a person speaking, as well as the conditions in their environment. However, in this relationship, an important question, on how reinforcement between the speaker and the other people occurs arises. According to research, it is clear that children acquire a number of language skills mainly without any instructions. ...

The following is the chosen piece to be assessed in this assignment:

“One of the most dangerous mistakes that can be done by the patient is to take medicine contrary to the prescription. This not only compromises the recovery process, but it also jeopardizes the life of the concerned patient. It is important for every patient to put into consideration the instructions given by a physician during prescription, so as to enhance the recovery process.”

Section 1

This piece of information stresses on the importance of taking medicine in the right way and procedure. It is targeted to the general audience at large, in respect of drugs given or bought under the direction of a ...

The essay “Never Just Pictures” by Susan Brodo is one that uses objectivity as a style to present cultural criticism. Her reaction to other works such as the “cult of the cadaverous” is her way of showing her criticism to bizarre American cultures. On never analyzing just pictures, it is easy to think of popular advertisements that have influenced the lives of people. Advertising is one of the most popular ways in which manufacturers can increase awareness on their commodities. However, easy it is for advertisements to convince people in the public to purchase things, but they do not appear ...

Chinese state media presentation is direct to the point, with active voice, and devoid of unnecessary stories compared to their counter part of the foreign media, which is full of political indifferent, passive voice characterized with feeling of negativism. To be fully informed one need to read both of them so to be fully informed. Maybe is true to say the fear of the government has reduced the reporting reflected in Chinese media is pro-government. One can hear the government tone just from reading the article. In fact the reader especially from liberal nation would confuse the report ...

Language has different systemic functional perspectives which allow a writer to express and connect ideas, interact with others and create cohesive and coherent texts for the readers (Derewianka 2012). The first text is an information report written to give generalized information about Antarctica and its food web. An information report structure involves a general statement identifying the topic of the report, followed by various descriptions of the topic. The second text is a narrative about a dramatic event that occurred during a family holiday at the beach. It was written as a first person narrative with the clear intent to entertain and instruct through ...

News reporting comes in various forms. Some may be in the form of newspaper articles, a television broadcast, or a radio broadcast, among others. Of the three news media, the newspaper offers a more direct and straightforward manner of news reporting, whereas the television and radio broadcasts are presented in a light manner in order to retain the attention of the audience. For newspapers, news are presented using the inverted pyramid style, which means the more important information are already mentioned to engage the reader at the beginning of the article. Thus, if a reader finds the article engaging, the tendency is for the ...

WRITING IMPROVEMENT EXERCISE 6

Writing Bad-News Messages

Passive Voice: A major error was made in the report. (simply states that a mistake was made without “pointing the finger” at someone – softens the sentence)

Active Voice: We accept returned merchandise only when you provide a sales receipt.

Passive Voice: Returned merchandise is accepted only when a sales receipt is provided. (by taking the people out - we & you – the focus switches to the things – merchandise & receipt)

Convert the following active voice sentences into passive voice:

- You cannot have a cash refund for merchandise that you purchased 30 or more days ago.

Cash refund is not allowed for merchandise purchased for 30 or more days.

- We can’t allow you to attend the conference because our budget has been cut.

Attending the conference is not possible due to the budget cut

- I am unable to accept your speaking invitation because of ...

Question one: “What are the errors of accidence and syntax with reference to parts of speech?”

While giving a speech, there are certain repetitive errors of accident and syntax that narrators make. These errors may be found in either pronunciation or in the format in which the words are arranged in a sentence (Pennington, 2008). Errors of accident occur in different cases one is omission of a word, change of tense, pluralizing or singularizing, use of wrong article and repetition. In a sentence like, “a car overturned the bridges and the car caused the accident.” All these errors occur. The article “a’ is used instead ...