For two years, Bernie, a beagle, languished on Petfinder, where shelters and rescue groups post online ads for pets. Because he wasn’t getting much interest, at the two-year mark the director of Hedgesville Hounds, a dog rescue group I volunteer with, asked whether I would consider rewriting his doggy bio. The bio had already been […]
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A Rant About Passivism
As William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White note in their book, The Elements of Style, the active voice is “more direct and vigorous” than the passive. “Use the active voice,” they command. They do not say, “The active voice should be used by you.” Do you hear how weak that sounds when you don’t know […]