Passive voice constructions can really bog down your essay and make things significantly more confusing than they need to be. A passive voice construction is a verbal phrase where the subject receives the verb’s action. For example, saying “the apples were purchased at the store by me” instead of “I purchased the apples at the store.” So, try finding and rewriting these passive voice passages in the active voice.
1. Read through your paper circling any and all passive voice constructions
2. Go through your essay and, on a separate sheet of paper, rewrite each passive voice as an active voice