SPECIFIC TOPICS:TOEFL WRITING TIPS (6)

TOEFL WRITING TIPS (6)

 WRITING SKILLS: To maintain and enhance your skills try the following:

1. Continue to improve your ability to express opinions by studying the ways that published writers express their opinions.

• Read articles and essays written by professional writers that express opinions about an issue (for example, a social, environmental, or educational issue).
• Identify the writer’s opinion or opinions.
• Notice how the writer addresses possible objections to the opinion, if the writer discusses these.
• Outline the article and note the different ways the writer supports the ideas.
• Write a response to the opinion essay or article in English, taking the opposite viewpoint.
• Outline your response, noting the methods you used to support your ideas.

2. Continue to develop your ability to express and organize ideas by outlining and recognizing the ways that professional writers present their ideas.
• Read articles and essays and describe how they are organized.
• Pay attention to the language the writers use to guide the readers’ understanding of how the parts of the article are connected.
• Write summaries and responses to what you have read.
• Think about how you want to organize your writing before you begin. You should have a clearly understood main idea and your supporting ideas should be relevant and developed with explanations, examples, and reasoning. A good strategy is to organize your main ideas into paragraphs that each have a topic sentence that clearly relates to your main point.
• Use appropriate linking devices to make sure your reader can follow the ways in which you relate your information and connect your supporting ideas to your main point.

                                                                                                               (From TOEFL Teaching Tips)

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