Brad,

I suggest you read the section in ELEMENTS OF STYLE on the passive voice.

I find the book contradictory, judgemental, and steer my writing students away from it.

Marshall

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Subject: The Elements of Style

A 'Little Book' Bursting With The Write Ideas

By Jonathan Yardley, Saturday, September 6, 2008
I have been a Strunkaholic for almost as long as I have been a journalist, though no doubt there have been times when one would never have known it from my prose. "The Elements of Style, With Revisions, an Introduction, and a New Chapter on Writing by E.B. White", was published in 1959, two years after White (had written) wrote an article in the New Yorker about this privately published (in 1918) textbook "I had used when I was a student at Cornell." Editors at Macmillan immediately decided they wanted to publish it, and contracted with White "to make revisions in the text and write a chapter on style," not newspaper style, needless to say, but real style, of which White was a master.


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