In sentences written in active voice, the subject performs the action expressed in the verb;
Subject(dog) >>> Verb (Bit)
The dog bit the boy.

In sentences written in passive voice, the subject receives the action expressed in the verb; The agent Verb(Bitten) >>> "by the..." or "may..." >>>Subject (dog)
The boy was bitten by the dog.

Hints: look for "by the"
To Change Passive to active; find the agent in a "by the..." phrase, or consider carefully who or what is performing the action expressed in the verb. Make that agent the subject of the sentence, and change the verb accordingly.

Banking: Repeating what you don't understand without stopping to ask questions .

Generalizations: Blanket statements with out explaining who what were and why. The movie was boring. Explain why it was boring. What were the particulars that caused the generalization!

Judging: Analyses before judging. Try to figure out what your subject means before deciding how you feel about it

Tip Try to eliminate the word "Should" because it is part of a judgment.
"The bill should pass"

Some words can simply be cut without any further changes. Ask yourself: "if I simply omitted this word, would the meaning remain effectively the same?". Most adverbs fall in this category. The words "essentially", "basically", "very", and "really" are usually superfluous. Authors use these words because they seem to intensify the meaning. And they do. But they also take up space, so that their net effect is negative. Which is the better sentence, "John ran very fast" or "John ran fast" -- or, indeed, if we drop the adjective as well, "John ran"? Complicated sentences are not bad, but needlessly complicated sentences are.

Bad: "The key went into the lock where it was put by John"

Better: "John put the key into the lock"

Next, let us consider sentences as a whole. Does the author's draft include two or more sentences that express a similar or overlapping idea, perhaps in different words? The similarity may not be obvious, and you may even feel an emotional attachment to both formulations. The redundant sentences may be located in the same paragraph, or in different paragraphs. Sentences can also be redundant because they don't say anything. For example, first drafts frequently commence with a couple of sentences (or even a couple of pages, of throat-clearing platitudes such as "Computers are having a powerful impact on the world in which we live", and such sentences can simply be deleted. The third assignment is to cross out all of the redundant sentences in the author's draft.