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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- Homework: take as much time as you need to type a good (300-word or so) response to this prompt:
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
- - Always telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relationship.
- Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
- Email or share (on Google) your response with [email protected]
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- http://ed.ted.com/lessons/could-we-survive-prolonged-space-travel-lisa-nip
- What are the main problems we would have in prolonged space travel?
- What solutions are mentioned?
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- DELTA p. 419 - simplified scoring rubric for independent writing
- - Individually, look at the three sample responses. What do you like about them? What don’t you like?
- - Then talk with your partner and compare your ideas. Using the rubric on p. 419, what score would you give each response (half-point scores like 2.5 or 3.5 are also possible)?
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- If you have time, always double-check for basic mistakes like subject-verb agreement. (When you’re writing about something general like this, it can be easy to forget whether a sentence is supposed to be about “a person” or about “people”.)
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- Remember: “perfect response” and “level 5 response” are not the same thing
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- - adjectives are followed by infinitives:
- It’s necessary to become responsible
- it’s necessary to tell the truth
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- I disagree with that telling the truth is not good to make a good relationship.
- - This is probably an example of misnegation.
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- https://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/TOEFL/pdf/ibt_writing_sample_responses.pdf - Look at the different sample responses. Can you see why they received the score they did?
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- Level 1 response:
- “The truth for bad or hard is better that thousand of lied that i feel better.”
- What does this mean with correct grammar and spelling?
- -> A bad or hard truth is better than a thousand lies that would make me feel better.
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- What will you do on your next writing task to make it better?
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- BREAK
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- Reading test (3 passages, 20 minutes each)
- DELTA 7 practice tests - Test 2 passages 1 and 2 (questions 1-26), Test 3 passage 3 (27-38)
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- Remember to check your schedules tomorrow morning before class.
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