Reading Comprehension Success in 20 Minutes a Day, 3rd Edition



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@ENGLISH RGN Reading Comprehension Success 3rd edition

Subjective: based on the thoughts, feelings, and
experiences of the speaker or writer (first-person
point of view)

Objective: unaffected by the thoughts, feelings,
and experiences of the speaker or writer (third-
person point of view)
Thus, if you wanted to complain about a new
office policy, which of the following points of view do
you think would be more effective?
A. I think our new office policy is a failure.
B. The new office policy appears to be a failure.
Most people would agree that sentence B is more
effective. The question is, why?
1. The point of view of sentence B is more effective
than that of sentence A because
a. sentence A is too subjective.
b. sentence B is too subjective.
c. sentence A is too objective.
d. all of the above.
The answer is a. Sentence A uses the first-person
point of view, and because is so subjective and per-
sonal, it doesn’t carry as much weight as the objective
sentence B. In sentence B, there is no personal per-
spective; someone from the outside (a third person, not
the reader or the writer) is looking at the policy and
evaluating it. The third-person point of view is almost
always considered to be more objective because the
third person is not directly involved in the action. I,
however, is directly involved in the action (the policy)
and therefore cannot have an objective opinion about
the policy’s success or failure. I’s opinion may be prej-
udiced by the writer’s personal experience.
Of course, even when a writer uses third person,
he or she can still express his or her own opinion.
When that opinion is expressed in the third person,
however, it appears much more objective.

A M AT T E R O F P E R S P E C T I V E : P O I N T O F V I E W

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