the writing section 9 analytical writing assessment

... review the scoring guide carefully The more you know about what is expected of you in the essay, the better you will be able to meet those expectations 226 – ABOUT THE ANALYTICAL WRITING ASSESSMENT ... structure Presents a Applies the clear and trol the rhythm thoughtful and pacing analysis of the issue or argument 227 – ABOUT THE ANALYTICAL WRITING ASSESSMENT – ■ Forms a thesis ■ Develops some ■ ... to relevant the issue or argument and ■ ■ ■ the task pre- Varies the using sophisti- thesis state- appropriate structure and cated language prompt ■ supports the sented in the ment writing devices...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2013, 17:20

... minutes 216 – ANALYTICAL WRITING ASSESSMENT PRETEST – 217 – ANALYTICAL WRITING ASSESSMENT PRETEST – Answer Explanations The following model essays earn a on the AWA section, the top score on the written ... 30 minutes 214 – ANALYTICAL WRITING ASSESSMENT PRETEST – 215 – ANALYTICAL WRITING ASSESSMENT PRETEST – Analysis of an Argument The following idea was proposed in a meeting of the owners of an ... improve the restaurant’s patron base, it is not the only method, nor does it guarantee that numbers would 2 19 – ANALYTICAL WRITING ASSESSMENT PRETEST – improve The owners must weigh the costs...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2013, 17:20

... will improve Essay The essay will always be the first section on the SAT You’ll get a prompt, which will either be one quote, two quotes, or a sentence that you must complete Then, there is an assignment ... sentence—you choose the one that is most clear and correct Improving Paragraphs Only about 10% of the questions in the writing section are this type, which is good news They are the most timeconsuming, ... answers (only in that section) Study the directions before taking the test Following the directions exactly is critical Why spend valuable time during the test poring over them? The College Board,...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2013, 18:20

... within the example (breathing problems and the need for an asthma specialist) This extension from the general to the specific characterizes the example in the next paragraph as well There, the discussion ... consider whether they actually support the conclusion Writing Your Essay in the Time Allowed Here, as with any standardized essay writing assessment, it is important to budget your time Within the 30-minute ... What are the types of injuries sustained and their causes? The writer develops each of these questions by considering possible answers that would either strengthen or weaken the argument The paper...

Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 05:20

... Chapter 9: Testing the writing skills The writing skills Testing composition writing Setting the composition Grading the composition Treatment of written errors The writing skills  ... determines the register and style to be used in the writing task by presenting Ss with a specific situation and context in which to write The difficulty in constructing compositions is the writing of the ... purpose, e.g the ability to select, organize and order relevant information, the use of judgment  important in teaching and testing of writing Testing composition writing  The types of writing tasks...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 09:20

... deserve our attention the attention of other writers on the subject topic Conclusion Templates 79 Or: What remains to be discussed at further length Z is the m a t t e r o f are the m a t t e r s ... degree to be the entirety a short about else restatement of your conclusion of the thesis and then You use template This template works best with argumentative essays Example The thesis has been ... Your Thesis: The biggest risk you have ever taken is running for president of your senior class Your Conclusion Y o u r Thesis: Y o u have argued that vending machines selling candy and other...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 13:20

... deserve our attention the attention of other writers on the subject topic Conclusion Templates 79 Or: What remains to be discussed at further length Z is the m a t t e r o f are the m a t t e r s ... degree to be the entirety a short about else restatement of your conclusion of the thesis and then You use template This template works best with argumentative essays Example The thesis has been ... Your Thesis: The biggest risk you have ever taken is running for president of your senior class Your Conclusion Y o u r Thesis: Y o u have argued that vending machines selling candy and other...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 22:20

Ngày tải lên: 25/11/2014, 00:36

... Mallick, 199 9) - 28 - The two major drawbacks of this method might be that respondents may not understand the intent of the questions or they may not answer truthfully (Chamot, 199 5) The former ... learner-directed assessment According to Murphy ( 199 4), portfolios can be used to encourage students to reflect on the pieces they write and on the processes they use to write them There have been ... (AAHE, 199 2, p.3) II.3 An overview of portfolio II.3.1 Teaching writing Nunan ( 199 1) affirms that there are various ways in writing teaching but the two most commonly applied approaches at the present...

Ngày tải lên: 16/07/2015, 07:45

... Mafeking in the news throughout the siege, updating readers on the occasional sorties from the town, the food stocks, and the mood of the garrison The tactics of the Daily Mail captured the attention ... but catch the interest of the British public very decisively The press followed the events of the war in such detail that Haggard decided by the end of the war to give up the idea of writing a ... The butchers have their group, the Kensington art students theirs Social class was rarely emphasized in the coverage of the siege itself (as opposed to the celebrations of the relief ), but the...

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Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 11:20

... as writing and the roles of writing, approaches to teaching writing, stages of teaching writing, principles for teaching writing, microskills for writing and writing activities Besides, in the ... of these ideas The result of the learning process depends on the final product By contrast, in the process approach the focus of teaching and learning is placed on the process of writing rather ... presented theoretical issues relating to the topic of the study It has discussed issues concerning writing: writing and the roles of writing, approaches to teaching writing, stages of teaching writing, ...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 18:33

... is the assessment different from the verbal section on the GRE General Test? The GRE Writing Assessment is performance based; candidates must organize and articulate their own ideas as they discuss ... thinking and analytical writing will be useful in the admissions process because it will help determine an applicant’s ability to graduate-level writing What is the assessment like? The assessment ... evaluate the appropriate use of the Writing Assessment score You can obtain this information on the GRE Web site at www.gre.org /writing. html or send e-mail inquiries to gre -writing@ ets.org How is the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 05:20

... limited until they master the mechanical skills of handwriting and spelling (McCutchen, 199 6) Learning the mechanics of writing to a point of automaticity during primary school years frees the components ... showed that they achieved their best work in their mid-thirties, approximately a decade after their first work published around the age of 25 (Raskin, 193 6) Wishbow ( 198 8) examined the biographies ... comparison with an assessment taken at the end of their sophomore year (see Writing Skills 10 Figure 1) By sharp contrast, the control group of students in other majors who did not take the writing intensive...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 23:20

... allow themselves about three minutes to evaluate the writing Some graders will look only at the introduction and the conclusion, the two areas where templates can be most useful The writing there ... and the ability to write could be another While these abilities in some practitioners appear to be innate, the analogy of writing to golf is appropriate when we focus on the nature of the writing ... and they get the ideas Other colleagues have raised the question of plagiarism in templates This is a non-starter Plagiarism is most fundamentally the theft of ideas There are no ideas here; there...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 13:51

... allow themselves about three minutes to evaluate the writing Some graders will look only at the introduction and the conclusion, the two areas where templates can be most useful The writing there ... and the ability to write could be another While these abilities in some practitioners appear to be innate, the analogy of writing to golf is appropriate when we focus on the nature of the writing ... and they get the ideas Other colleagues have raised the question of plagiarism in templates This is a non-starter Plagiarism is most fundamentally the theft of ideas There are no ideas here; there...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 21:28

... result of the classification For example, if the answer is yes at the root node, the instance in question is tagged with count Otherwise, the question at the lower node is applied and so on The tagging ... denote the contexts consisting of the noun phrase that the target noun heads, words to the left of the noun phrase, and words to its right, respectively Then the template is formalized by: For the ... structured as follows Section describes the method for detecting the target errors based on the mass count distinction Section explains how the method is augmented by feedback Section discusses experiments...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 18:20

... piece of writing, and the reasons for writing to be taught It also deals with the writing skill and the other skills speaking and reading comparatively It also explores the resources of the writing ... understand the issue under study; i.e., the importance of understanding the stages of writing which, we believe will smooth the progress of developing the writing skill Structure of the Study The present ... aware of the different processes of writing will help them to overcome the difficulties they face when they write, and therefore produce well written-texts Research Questions and Hypothesis Writing...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 19:20

... encode the message The sender must actual transmit the message The message must be physically received by someone The receiver must decode the message The receiver must understand the message The ... by their search for the rabid dog which was even now dragging itself up the creek bed at the base of the ravine 34 Descriptive Writing The last kind of writing is descriptive Descriptive writing ... baking, the sound of dishes being washed, the anticipation of the nutty taste of the fresh bread, and the feeling of warmth from the wood stove With all these details, the reader has the information...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 19:20

... interlanguage view of the acquisition process (Selinker, 197 2), (Ellis, 199 4), (Cook, 199 3) and attempt to model how the student's grammar is likely to change over time The essence of the acquisition ... follows: the a g r values between the DP and the NP will be the same, and none of the values in Det will be allowed to be in the agreement values for 1202 the NP and the DP This will allow the rule ... in the writing of ASL natives and they are difficult to detect using the mal-rule formalism To clearly see the problem, consider the following two sentences, which would not be unusual in the writing...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 04:20