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Review: Academic Writing

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    Materials regarding Academic Writing
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  • An __________ is a list of the information you will put in your essay.
    outline
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  • An outline shows the __________ of the essay.
    organization
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  • Before writing an outline, you must go through the usual process of gathering __________, editing them, and deciding on a topic for your writing.
    ideas
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  • Use __________ (I, II, III, IV, V, etc) for your essay's main ideas.
    Roman numerals
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  • An __________ is a group of paragraphs written about a single topic and a central main idea.
    essay
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  • The first paragraph of an essay is the __________
    introduction
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  • The __________ is the sentence that tells the main idea of the whole essay.
    thesis statement
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  • A thesis statement gives the author's __________ or states an important idea about the topic.
    opinion
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  • A __________ paragraph describes and discusses a problem issue.
    problem
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  • Complete this sentence: People __________ (become) ill if they __________ (eat) the ill fish.
    People can/will become ill if they eat the ill fish.
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  • To ________ means to discuss how two people, places, or things are similar.
    compare
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  • Complete this sentence: Both my neighbor and I __________ (to be) selling our cars.
    Both my neighbor and I are selling our cars.
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  • Complete this sentence: In recent years, new technology such as mobile phones has made life more convenient. __________, the Internet has made a wide variety of information available to everyone.
    Likewise / Similarly
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  • Complete this sentence: Eating out is usually __________ (expensive) than cooking at home.
    more expensive
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  • Complete this sentence: My boyfriend likes doing sport. __________, I prefer doing yoga.
    On the other hand
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  • A __________ is a piece of information that is true: The film was three hours long.
    fact
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