Semester A Unit 6 Lesson 11
Introduction and Objective
Mood and tone should be maintained throughout your text. While your readers won’t necessarily get confused if you switch from one voice to another, it will affect their reaction to the information you’re giving them. For instance, the passive voice is not terribly firm, and your readers may not get too excited about what they’re reading; the active voice sounds very forceful and can incline your readers to believe whatever you say.
Today's lesson objective is: Students will be able to develop and maintain a consistent voice in argumentative writing. Students will be able to establish a formal tone in argumentative writing.
It is important to check for tone, voice, and mood. How do
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Such unnecessary changes, or shifts, might make reading difficult and make the sentence’s meaning unclear for the reader. The overall voice of a text is composed of tone, voice of verbs, and mood, which are affected by word choice and details.
Tone is the first thing you should look for in persuasive writing. The tone of a text is the attitude that the writer takes toward an audience, a subject, or a character. In your persuasive letter, your tone is the attitude toward the topic. The tone is conveyed through your word choice and details. The tone can be humorous, sad, happy, or neutral. In the case of a persuasive letter, your tone should be serious and more formal. If you write in a humorous tone, you may not truly convince your reader of your claim.
One way to make sure you’re writing in a formal tone is to avoid colloquialisms and contractions. This will help you to come across as a well-informed writer. Let’s look at a few examples.
Students shouldn’t be punished because they don’t have the opportunities to volunteer, which is why the school shouldn’t cancel the program in the
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Incredible is an example of a word that evokes a happy feeling or awe, but the definition of the word is “something that is not reliable or convincing.”
Choosing words that remind a reader of an emotion similar to the tone of your writing will help the reader to better form the proper mood regarding your subject. In persuasive writing in particular, choosing words to evoke a specific mood can help in convincing your reader.
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While the overall voice of a text is made up of the tone, mood, word choice, and sentence structure, the use of verbs in specific tenses is also referred to as voice. The voice of a verb may be either active or passive. When a sentence contains two or more verbs, both verbs should maintain the same voice. You do not want to shift the voice of the verbs you are using.
The difference between active and passive voice is determined by the subject and verb relationship. In active voice, the subject performs the verb, as in the following example:
Craig turned on the computer.
Passive voice shows that the subject is being acted upon by the verb, as in the following example:
The computer was turned on by