Delaying or removing the source of an action is what contributes to a sentence’s passiveness. Passive sentences can contribute to unclear writing by delaying or avoiding direct reference to the agent ...

Students could create a checklist of success criteria for writing a formal report. Students could be challenged to re-write the original text using formal language, following the success criteria ...

All undergraduate students must satisfy the Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement (GWAR) in order to graduate. The GWAR is satisfied by completing a designated upper division Writing Intensive (WI ...