Kevin welcome to WAB, its your turn to contribute to the online tutoring session.
Those three are all varying forms of what is called passive voice. Unless your observing an experiment,academic writing should be in active voice. Active voice means actors act. The actors can be ideas, events, people nations or what ever.
#1. The United States faced the spector of nucelar war during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
#2 The Soviet Union placed missiles and military forces in Cuba, only 90 miles from its ideological rival the United States.
#3 American policy makers had several military options to respond with.
Active voice creates shorter easier to read sentences. This is useful for the professor who has a stack of mostly junk papers to read and later when writing for publication since it makes even the most complex arguments clear and concise.
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This crisis resulted when the Soviet Union, the ideological rival of the U.S., placed a number of nuclear armed missiles and ground forces in the belligerent island nation of Cuba, only 90 miles off the American coast in the Caribbean.
In terms of a solution to this crisis, American policymakers had several military options that could have been pursued to resolve the crisis.
#1. The United States faced the spector of nucelar war during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
#2 The Soviet Union placed missiles and military forces in Cuba, only 90 miles from its ideological rival the United States.
#3 American policy makers had several military options to respond with.
Active voice creates shorter easier to read sentences. This is useful for the professor who has a stack of mostly junk papers to read and later when writing for publication since it makes even the most complex arguments clear and concise.
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