Anonymous #1 1d

If you don’t know, there’s plenty of resources to learn, or ask a professor, I’m giving you a starting point, not a lecture

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Anonymous OP 1d

Well that’s a pretty obnoxiously half assed way to live, don’t you think? I mean, if you’re gonna make a point, then make your fuckin point. Complete the thought. Don’t spout off some opinion that requires homework in order to contextualize it. That’s so lazy. You don’t even really know what a passive voice is, do you? You just recall some professor in tweed elbow patches mentioning it off the cuff, and now you’re waxing intellectual with nothing to back up your flimsy claim. Thats whack.

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Anonymous #1 1d

Sounds to me like you’re the one who’s lazy since you can simply type into google, active vs passive voice and actually learn something instead of being told through an anonymous app.

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Anonymous OP 23h

That’s better. Don’t you feel much better about yourself now that you’ve taken that extra step, gone that little bitty extra mile?

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Anonymous OP 23h

Touché, right? 😉😉

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Anonymous #1 22h

Oh I’ve already been doing it, before you came I’d already been teaching people who came respectfully asking about it, not demanding it like you did

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Anonymous #1 22h

But I do thank you for reminding me that I should let people know they could DM or look it up instead of being asshat like you

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Anonymous #1 22h

A great example of how not to approach someone who is willing to help you learn if you just have a smidge of curiosity

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Anonymous #2 21h

It’s actually the other way around, academic papers like scientific articles typically use passive voice because it emphasizes the results, active voice is preferred creatively because it emphasizes the subject doing the action

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Anonymous #2 21h

But yes they both have their moments to shine when writing, more often than not, a professors prefers active over passive voice, especially in creative writing classes

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Anonymous OP 21h

…Are you writing an action series that has absolutely zero world building or plot/character development? Academically, the idea is to get to the point instead of adding a bunch of words. In my eyes, coherency is more important than anything else. As a Masters graduate assistant who’s taught English Comp 1, trust me when I tell you they dont care about the difference. They come in writing at a 7th grade level and you have to fix it 4 months. Yes, active v passive is important but they’re alr

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Anonymous #2 21h

so far behind that it’s a miracle if they’re at a high school level by the following semester. I’m glad you take writing seriously (I love to write!), but active vs passive is not this big of a deal

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Anonymous #2 20h

Hence why i said the tip, I recently finished a doctorate in classics, and they do care, it’s just like you said, it’s not common knowledge anymore, so learning the difference, impresses them immensely. Am I saying passive voice has no place in creative writing, of course not, bht if you know the difference, it automatically levels up your writing

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Anonymous #2 20h

Also if coherency is the point, then you’d be advocating active voice too, because it often shortens sentences, passive is frequently riddled with unnecessary words.

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Anonymous #3 19h

More like here’s this tip hoping that yall had more initiative to actually go and learn about it, as opposed to being spoon fed everything

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Anonymous #3 19h

Best part is that you’ve posted this after all the back and forth showing that you really don’t care, just want to talk

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Anonymous #1 19h

Got a bit aggressive there, huh?

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Anonymous #4 18h

I just matched their tone, they started being condescending with buddy, and I’m a petty mf, if they just asked simply, please explain more, this would’ve gone down way different

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Anonymous OP 18h

Just cuz you get a notif that someone commented under your post doesn’t automatically mean they’re replying to a comment you made under said post, I was nawt talking to you 😭😭

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Anonymous #4 18h

I know you weren’t, I was just explaining my reasoning for being a dick and escalating with them.

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Anonymous OP 18h

Without prompt or reason tho, I could already tell that’s what happened, that’s why I called #1 aggressive to begin with

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Anonymous #4 18h

Okay, apologies, I’ll buy you a mcchicken

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Anonymous OP 18h

It’s fine I was passive aggressive too when I should’ve explained more to begin with, I do love McDonald’s tho

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Anonymous #4 18h

Great, see you there at 7

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Anonymous OP 18h

lmao and you're acting like this is some profound advice that isn't said a million times you're unoriginal and annoying

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Anonymous #3 18h

Annoying, yes, unoriginal, also yes with the tip, and yet, most people don’t even know the difference anymore, so if it’s such common knowledge, why you mad I said to google it?

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Anonymous #3 18h

It’s okay that you felt left out and wanted to join the convo, but at least add something to the plot

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Anonymous OP 12h

like you added anything to this community ? okay

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Anonymous #3 12h

Says the person replying to a post where I genuinely gave a tip for writing, you can not like the tip or already know it, doesn’t mean I didn’t add anything

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Anonymous OP 8h

Okay, really? You’re wicked sensitive like an exposed nerve in need of a root canal if the word buddy really set you off like that. I was just being affable with a twist of sarcasm, and you really took offense? Nobody can call anyone buddy without being accused of malicious condescension now? Come on, buddy… relax, guy!! See, I don’t get why kids these days are sooo hypersensitive and politically correct all the time… and by the way, I don’t even think the OP was particularly aggressive with me

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Anonymous #1 8h

Yeah I’m not a kid, and you’re the one that seems to be acting pretty sensitive, also they were calling you aggressive or did you not read the whole exchange?

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Anonymous #2 8h

Can a modified gerund really “understand” things? Personificationmuch, or…?

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Anonymous #1 7h

Well thank you, I appreciate that I did enjoy your jabs, even if they annoyed me too Here’s a 🐍 as a gift

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Anonymous #1 7h

for a “critical review of literature” option instead, and the theory I wanted to offer evidence in proof of was that in a time of economic recession the best thing a government can do is to input massive investments into the education sector, even to the point of significant deficit spending, because studies have shown that this is the only type of public spending during heavy economic downturns that will actually reliably not only pay for itself fairly quickly, but also generate exponential…

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Anonymous #1 7h

…economic gains as a direct result, by preparing work forces for the demands of new cutting edge technologies and practices that would otherwise be overlooked the way we can’t see the forest through the trees, to sum it up fairly sloppily (but give me a break, alright, it’s been like 15 years now since I was in the teacher education program and decided to take the credentials and certifications and run, rather than sticking around for the thesis and masters degree—which, of course, I now regret)

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Anonymous #1 7h

The thesis advisor I didn’t jive with kept making remarks like, “what does any of this have to do with teaching? You’re studying to be a classroom teacher, aren’t you? What are you, an economist now too? You need to redirect this theme and figure out a way to contribute to the field itself, not the political or financial underpinnings of the system, blah blah blah…” and I kept telling her I was only a substitute teacher at the time, unlike the majority of the other masters candidates, and i…

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Anonymous #1 7h

…I thought they were being a little shortsighted in dismissing my ideas so early because the whole point of my research was going to be that conservative tendencies to always reign in education spending first every time the economy starts to falter into a recession are in fact very misguided examples of egregiously false economy, because regardless of how counterintuitive it may seem at first thought, this is one scenario in which it will actually always reliably pay off pretty soon if you…

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