MC 4001 : Writing Document Final

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15 Mar 2019
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Writing skills are essential for all of our students, and writing is a skill to be developed in all courses offered in the manship school of mass communication. Manship faculty will evaluate student writing with consideration for these fundamental writing concepts. farther, further fewer, less its, it"s stationary, stationery. Active: the executive committee approved the new policy. Passive: the new policy was approved by the executive committee: due to, because of, media (plural), medium (singular, principal, principle. The following words are often confused or misused in writing. Make sure you understand the difference: accept, except a lot all right affect, effect among, between anxious, eager: because, since. English sentences have three basic elements: a subject, a verb, and an object. In active voice sentences, the verb is the action element of the sentence, the subject is the "doer" of the action, and the object is the recipient of the action.