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Creative Challenges - audience, bitmap images, Concepts, design, image maps, photographs, pictures, purpose, responding, style, Writing online, writing process

What are bitmap images? GIFs (Graphics Interchange Format) and JPEGs (Joint Photographic Experts Group) are bitmaps; they use pixels to display colors. In other words, bitmaps use a grid of squares, and each square, each pixel, can represent a color. Different computer monitors have different numbers of bits they can display for each pixel. A ...

When is the Active Voice Preferable to the Passive Voice?

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In general, you can make your writing more persuasive, clear, and concise by using the active voice rather than the passive voice. There are instances, however, when the passive voice is preferable to the active voice, as discussed below. What are the Active and Passive Voices? Essentially, a verb is active when its subject performs ...

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When is the Active Voice Preferable to the Passive Voice?

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