INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH SAMPLE MID-TERM TEST Writing AE2 Task 1: Identify 6 cases of non-academic language in the text below and edit them to make an academic text. In the box below, write the original words/phrases in the left hand column and your editions in the right-hand column. You have an example. (30 pts) CAN MEDICATION CURE OBESITY IN CHILDREN? A Review of the Literature In March 2004, U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona called attention to
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section Vi essay forms Many people use the term “essay” to mean any paper written for a class. In actuality, there are many different types of essays, each of which has a unique purpose, form, and style. We call these different types of essays “modes of discourse,” and they include expository, persuasive, and comparecontrast essays to name just a few. This section of the Guide has a dual purpose. First, various types of essays are described and suggestions are included about how to approach
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paragraphs and essays with the guidance of our teacher. We learned that to make an effective paragraph you have to make a point, support the point, organizing and connecting the evidence. We also learned that the different types of paragraphs whether it is exemplification, narration, descriptive, process, cause & effect, compare/contrast definition paragraph or division/classification and how to make it in our own. We also have learned that in writing and developing an essay you need to formulate
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which can be utilized to write whatever comes to mind about a subject underneath the prewriting stage. It is a continuous writing session that can last from 5-10 minutes with anything that comes to mind. This skill has changed my writing process in a way to enhance my prewriting strategies with greater ideas. I'm also getting detailed ideas on how to do create a topic outline and a sentence outline. With the detailed ideas through the course of writing I have learned how to use my outline to coordinate
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Fuller distinguishes Brown and his European equivalent from all other writing. She illustrates how the quality of his writing and ideas is far beyond anything anyone else has done. Her work is a contribution to the general discussion on how American and European writers compare. The target audience is clearly literary scholars. The language and subject matter are complex enough that it would make it impossible for anyone in that period who isn’t highly educated to comprehend her message. It is
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COLT 102 February 13, 2015 K. Calhoon Essay Assignment Write a four-page essay (printed, double-spaced) based on one of the following prompts: • Gwendolyn Brooks’ “The Ballad of Rudolph Reed” presents a sequence of events culminating in Rudolph Reed’s death. Canto 33 of Dante’s Inferno presents a similar sequence in which the death of Ugolino’s sons and eventually Ugolino himself is described. Look at these two texts carefully. Compare and contrast the ways in which Brooks’ and Dante’s language
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|Provide two tips for writing | | |rhetorical mode is used. |best with each rhetorical mode. |in each rhetorical mode. | |Narration |The purpose of narrative writing |A strong narrative essay, containing |--Phrases and words related to| | |is an extensive form or |details of the setting, characters, and |the human senses attract the | | |storytelling. It can either be |situations
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parts of, and the relationship among the parts of, the Rhetorical Triangle as described in the Unit 1 online Course Materials: speaker, audience, and situation. Explain why each element was successful or not successful in the presentation. Then compare and contrast the two presentations: Tell which one is more effective and explain the reasons why. Include citations and references for your videos. Please submit your assignment. (I HAVE UPLOADED THE 2 VIDEOES I HAVE CHOSEN) Unit 1 IP: 125 possible points
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There are a range of essay types, and each of these types requires you to do different things. An important first skill, then, in preparing your essay is to identify what sort of essay you are being asked to write, and what this requires you to do. In general essays fall along a continuum between those that ask you to describe a particular phenomenon, and those that ask to discuss, analyse, criticize and debate particular issues. At university essays increasingly tend to fall into the latter discussion
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University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course addresses the key elements necessary for effective academic writing in college. The course begins with focus on prewriting strategies and builds to drafting and revising essays. In addition, the course includes skill development at the sentence and paragraph level. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents:
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