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Tone helps to develop and maintain your assertion throughout your essay and is important in the writing process. Consider the following examples: | Tone helps to develop and maintain your assertion throughout your essay and is important in the writing process. Consider the following examples: | ||
:Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly delivered a verdict that favored Microsoft’s position in the Justice Department’s anti-trust case. | |||
Microsoft’s position in the Justice Department’s anti-trust case. | |||
:Judge Kollar-Kotelly’s verdict amounts to little more than a slap on the wrist for the monopolist Microsoft. | |||
The first example maintains an '''objective''' point of view by presenting the information in a neutral way. This may prove as a weak approach. To effectively illustrate a point of view a writer should be assertive rather than neutral. The second example is more effective writing because it uses an opinion, and the word “monopolist” which clearly illustrates the writer’s feelings toward the verdict. | The first example maintains an '''objective''' point of view by presenting the information in a neutral way. This may prove as a weak approach. To effectively illustrate a point of view a writer should be assertive rather than neutral. The second example is more effective writing because it uses an opinion, and the word “monopolist” which clearly illustrates the writer’s feelings toward the verdict. | ||