WRITING 166J IN-CLASS EXERCISE: Activating the passive (Online Journalism: Reporting and Publishing)

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----------------------------------- Revise the following sentences to activate the passive voice: 1. It is argued by some researchers that alien bodies were retrieved by the U.S. Air Force from a crashed spacecraft near Roswell, N.M. in 1947. 2. Miles Davis' "Sketches of Spain" was hailed by critics as one of his finest works. 3. The graphic user interface was orginally developed by researchers at Xerox Parc in Palo Alto, Calif. 4. A cholera outbreak in 19th-century London was stopped when a neighborhood water pump's handle was removed by a local physician. 5. These graphics have been chosen carefully to illustrate each step of the process. Write using a common vocabulary! Can you come up with a word of phrase to replace the following: 1. altercation 2. antagonist 3. capitulate 4. celestial 5. demonic 6. epitome 7. fiduciary 8. gravamen 9. impediment 10. litigious -------------------------------------------------- Note: Some of the previous content was adapted from Writing for the Web: Geeks' Edition, by Crawford Kilian, (Self-Counsel Press, 2000).