Given the meaning and context of your particular sentence, which version is more effective: the active or the passive?

 
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Post one paragraph from your recent writing that contains a sentence in passive voice. Remember that in a passive voice, the subject of the sentence does not do an action; the subject of the sentence is acted upon.
Example: The meeting minutes are written by a different committee member each week.
In this passive sentence, the subject, “minutes,” does not do any writing. The minutes are written by committee members.
Then respond to the following:
1. Rewrite your sentence in active voice.
Example: A different committee member writes the meeting minutes each week.
2. Given the meaning and context of your particular sentence, which version is more effective: the active or the passive? Explain your answer.

 
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