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BETTER
WRITING
RIGHT NOW!
Using Words
to Your Advantage
NEW YORK
Francine D. Galko
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Deciding What to Say—
Preparing to Write
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LESSON
Getting ... assignment you might have—from writing an
essay for class to writing a memo for your boss.
Moreover, this book doesn’t just tell you how to write better. It shows you h...
... booklet in
addition to this booklet.
How to prepare for IELTS - Writing
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• Think about the topics that could be used for this task. For
example,
Technology
Crime
Tourism
Transport
Education ... chart together (see Cambridge IELTS 1, p.31) or
a line graph and a table.
How to prepare for IELTS - Writing
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Length & Timing
You have to write at least 150 words....
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Deciding What to Say—
Preparing to Write
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Some writing assignments give you a question or a topic on which to write. Others are more open-ended
and you have to come up with a topic or question ... Topic LESSON 2
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BETTER WRITING RIGHT NOW!
LESSON 2 Choosing Your Own Topic
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2. List a few good sources for the topic i...
... landed
dropped suddenly
next to the stadium?
Next to the stadium is
is next to the stadium.
Was angry.
is waiting for us.
8 PARTS OF SPEECH
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1. Has ... (understood)
froze
froze during the night
pond
must have been treated
was
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We are building up our library at: www.waystoenglish.com
Contributing Editors
Auditi Chakravart...
... at
night. They fail to get the pearl. Kino kills one attacker. Others, however,
burn Kino’s poor hut to the ground.
Kino decides to go to Mexico City, the distant capital, to try to sell the
pearl. ... some reporter were to describe the weather for us by saying,
“It snowed,”
we would not be entirely satisfied. We would want to know the answers to certain ques-
tions:
1. How,...
... used to develop a unified paragraph. Another
method is the use of examples. Examples add interest to your writing and support your
ideas. They help to explain a topic by putting a “face” to the ... merely repeats the topic sentence.
Choice 3 is a little better. At least it turns the topic sentence into a
question, and it involves the reader. But it is essentially the same as the
to...
... Walsh told the clerk: “I always
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pay cash.”
ANTECED
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8. The committee asks: “Help us make
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this town a better place to live in.”
ANTECED
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54 PARTS OF SPEECH
Composition Hint
To avoid ... Catherine.
8. Washington is giving emergency aid to the flooded regions.
50 PARTS OF SPEECH
9. I wrote a letter to Yasmin.
10. The cashier handed the change to the customer.
NOUNS AS...