College Composition / Unit 18 CMP 0434 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Second Person
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The idea
Second person, you, is not considered appropriate in most academic writing, though textbooks and instructions use it.
In practice
Writers often slip into you by accident: "The minimum wage should let people earn a wage you can live on" should read "a wage they can live on."
Where people slip
Search a draft for you and revise each one that does not mean the actual reader.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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