in the process of summary writing, a lot of language skills are involved. it includes
in this course, we write summary sentences instead of summary essays.
some factors contribute to the dissatisfaction of students, parents and employers who all think colleges fail to provide students with enough skills that are needed at the job market. they are:
this passage follows the problem-ysis-solution pattern.
which of the following is not from the checklist for a summary?
you need to put "" wherever you quote more than ___ words from the text.
there is a wide gap between_________ according to a series of monthly surveys.
when you are writing a summary you may do all of the following except___________.
colleges worried about filling seats have accommodated them by rolling out a bevy of practical majors, such as a bachelor’s degree in ____.
michael roth, president of wesleyan university, who is interested in making more fundamental changes to what happens in the classroom, wants more courses to be _____.
according to michael roth the universities can serve better if they _____.
a summary is an account in a reader’s words that gives the main points of a piece of writing.
if someone has a sense of entitlement, that means the person has a title acknowledged by others.
the academic writing includes__________________.
first-things-first means we write the topic sentence at the beginning of a paragraph. likewise, we write our thesis statement at the very beginning of an essay.
academic writing is most likely to be hierarchically organized, at the bottom of which is the thesis statement.
in order to make your point clear as soon as possible, we’d better put the topic sentence ______ the paragraph.
colleges that score badly in payscale’s rankings argue that __________.
why does this course suggest student writers to put a topic sentence at the very beginning of a paragraph?
the factors that force many colleges to cut costs and raise quality are ____.
in a pee structure you use explanations or examples to support your topic sentence.
according to the passage, although college graduates earn much more than their peers with only a high school diploma, some degrees pay for themselves; others don’t.
according to the passage, although college graduates earn much more than their peers with only a high school diploma, some degrees pay for themselves; others don’t.
who is an authority?
we should document our source as long as we are not using ___________ as support.
quick examples are a list of things, instances or occurrences that exemplify the topic you are talking about.
the essay “women earning more” points out that the still prevalent social norm that men should be the breadwinner of a family not only puts a glass ceiling to women’s careers, but also hurts the social economy as a whole.
ronald reagan thought we needed to invest more in intellectual curiosity.
the following methods can serve as support when you write a paragraph except for ______.
according to the research, women who could outearn their huands choose not to work at all, or to work less because _____.
the marriage market clears much less often in regions in which _________.
marriage difficulties jump and orce rates increase if the wife ____.
the writer suggests that government should take targeted policies to _________.
researcher only used couples around the time of first marriage (22-34) for the study of income patterns of couples because they wanted to know whether or not the progress in economy has changed the social norm "men should earn more than their wives".
according to the practical writer, an authority is a person who is in the position to know about a subject.
what is a topic sentence or a thesis statement? a topic sentence or a thesis statement includes a topic and a controlling idea.
a topic sentence controls a paragraph and a thesis statement controls the whole essay.
the writer of the second essay "why men fail" gives some reasons for why men fail on one hand and why women succeed on the other hand, the major factors including:
which of the following is not included in an introduction?
the thesis statement together with a blueprint is most often _____ the introduction.
according to sheryl sandburg, millennial women are less ambitious than their male peers because______.
who are more likely to cling to the old order in times of drastic social change?
a topic sentence controls a paragraph and a thesis controls the whole essay.
the topic sentence of each body paragraph supports the thesis statement of the essay.
which one of the following sentneces is not correct?
in this lecture, you have learned many ways to make your writing concise and emphatic. they are:
the fact that al bean has never complained about the weather after coming back from the moon reveals that________.
mark mason says that" life is one long 'wet paint' sign" because______.
if a piece of writing is concise, it____________.
pete conrad, the third moonwalker, is one of famous americans nobody recognised because__________.
when al bean, the fourth moonwalker returned to earth he would sit in shopping malls________.
by saying "t minus zero for apollo was t plus one for globalization", mark mason means__________.
we usually use verbs like ‘be’, ‘make’ or ‘have’ to achieve conciseness.
arrange sentences in a paragraph to form a chain that begins with old information and end with new.
in english writing, we prefer the passive voice in which the subject performs the verb’s action.
the following sentences help you to decide whether a passage has achieved unity or not. which one of them is not correct?
the conclusion should restate the thesis statement of the essay.
kate chopin is an american__________.
why does the author of a visit to the setting of the awakening say “grand isle and chopin are synonymous?
by saying “the artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies,” kate chopin may imply that________.
"i heard its language and it spoke deeply to me" is a sentence taken from the only travel essay that we have covered this semester. what does the underlined part mean?
grand isle is a place that __________.
there is only one main idea in a unified essay.
it doesn’t matter if some sentences in a paragraph don’t relate to the topic sentence.
there can be two or three topic sentences in one paragraph.
to achieve unity, we should round off all the off-topic sentences in the essay.
according to some linguistics, chinese language is a reader responsible language while english is a writer responsible language.
‘even though’ is a transitional phrase to show addition.
between the topic sentence and the examples, we add an explanation to tell how the examples relate to the topic sentence.
you can use the following techniques to achieve coherence in a paragraph except for ____.
people will need to top up their human capital throughout their lives because ________.
the reason why moocs have so far failed to live up to their promises are as follows except ___?
what kind of universities and professors will be victims when moocs are taking over higher education?
if an essay is coherent we say this essay___________.
we use the following devices to achieve coherence except_____________.
which of the following is true about future labour market?
if a piece of writing is coherent, it flows and is very easy to follow because the sentences or ideas are well linked.
we sometimes use templates to make the essay easy to follow.
the reinvention of universities with moocs will benefit many more people than it hurts.
we may use the repetition of key words to make the ideas to be well linked.
once the paragraph has achieved unity, it doesn’t matter whether it is coherent or not.
which of the following techniques can help you to write a memorable conclusion.
providers of moocs are innovating to offer worker more ways to learn skills. the innovations they have made are as follows except__________.
lifelong learning that exists today mainly benefits_______.
a hook of an essay is___________.
compared with people who have received general education, ________ tend to withdraw from the labour market earlier.
the conclusion is the final paragraph in an essay. like the concluding sentence in a paragraph, it is a summary or review of the main points discussed in the body paragraphs. it has three purposes. which one is not correct?
automation and ai are not only taking over blue-collar jobs but also white-collar once. many jobs are disappearing.
in the future careers and learning will be very much interleaving so that people need to boost and reboot careers every now and then.
a good paragraph has unity, coherence and cohesion; a good essay also has these features.
there are mainly five types of essay questions in cet 4&6 writing test, including a given outline, an imaginary situation, a picture, a graph, or a topic. in these question types, you are supposed to be able to:
while writing the supporting sentences, we must keep one thing in mind: each sentence after the topic sentence should support the topic sentence.
which of the following is not a western parents' feature according to amy chua?
which of the following things does not amy chua do to her little daughter lulu?
which of the following shows western parents' anxiety about their children's self-esteem?
which of the following might chinese parents do if a child comes home with an a-minus on a test?
which of the following might be one of the reasons for western parents to challenge the teacher's credentials?
why do chinese parents demand perfect grades from their child?
why do not western parents think their children owe them everything?