This handout is available for download in PDF format. Active verbs are important components of any academic writing! Just as in other forms of writing, they work as engines, driving the action of your ...

I begin by asking what an active verb is (a verb that conveys an action ... following the exercise you can ask students to find a passive sentence in their essay and change it to active. The computer ...

Writing in the active voice makes the meaning clear while ... Active voice verbs can appear on their own and do not require "be" as a helping verb. When an active verb does have "be" as a helping verb ...

The Thousand Words Project was an exciting lesson in my classroom; students were engaged and were able to see a new way of approaching writing. Students who are visual learners got a chance to ...