TOEFL WRITING TIPS
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WRITING SKILLS: To maintain and enhance your skills try the following:
- 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.
- 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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