James Moffet

Active Voice is a a writing program across the curriculum introduce by James Moffet to help "educators deliberate how to initiate a total writing program."Moffet believed that all writing had to be edited and revised version of the inner speech someone produces at a particular moment under the influence of random or controlled circumstances. In his book he explains how talking and writing can be useful to revise our inner speech. Moffet was against free writing because for some people it had a specific meaning "such as open-topic composition or formless final paper" Instead he replaced free writing with what spontaneously comes to mind.His system was divided into two assignments, the first assignment focuses on revising inner speech  which reflects outer material and may be about any subject and can be done by any person or group age. The second group assignment focuses on dialogues and monologues what are known to deal with the composing of vocal speech. Moffet curriculum helps us realize how writing is not all about focusing on basic writing, it is about going deeper and focusing on our thoughts and expanding it in our writing.