As with last time, include annotations that explain why you are doing what you are doing. Those can be done analog or digital$$just know that they are just as important as your revisions! Bring a hard copy to class on Thursday, on which you$$ll write out the final item at the start of class.

Work on making reducing nominalizations and passive verbs in this passage $($though that doesn$$t necessarily mean eliminating them entirely$).$ Meanwhile, as fitting, apply earlier lessons on cohesion, emphasis, concision, punctuation variety, and parallelism.

$1.$ Sometimes a good reason to make an exception to the preference for the active voice over the passive voice can be the creation of end$-$to$-$start links between sentences, which often require making the second sentence passive. The avoidance of responsibility is another, though often ethically questionable, reason for the usage of the passive voice. The most classic formulation of this mode of the dodging of responsibility is $$Mistakes were made.$$