ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO WRITING PART 3

But if your subject is more feelings about war, TRANG 2 THE WRITING PROCESS scribble, to get ideas on paper, any ideas, however far-fetched, _in whatever order._ FINDING TOPICS BY ASKING[r]

84 THE ESSAY
only to summarize the main events and their significance in so far as they affected the main front at Cassino. Fred Majdalany
On the other hand, writers may be more self-conscious and deliberately play a role. In exposition it is often a good tactic to present yourse[r]

360 DESCRIPTION AND NARRATION
when everyone else was at school or going about his business, made me feel as if I had been expelled from the great normal body of humanity. I would gobble down my lunch on my way to the speech clinic and rush back to the school in time to make[r]

TRANG 5 DICTION SPECIFICITY MEANS CONCISION Beginning with a word too general for your idea creates a need for wordy modification: _People who enter college for the first time find it di[r]

AWKWARD SOUND We choose words primarily for what they mean, but we must remember that words are also units of sound and rhythm.. Even people adept at silent reading will be put off by aw[r]

(4) VARIETY 23 5
How much recurrence, how much variety depend on sub- ject and purpose. For instance, when you repeat the same point or develop a series of parallel ideas, the similarity of subject justifies—and is enhanced by—similarity of sentence structure. Thus Adams repeats the same pattern[r]

ing much below the linea lateralis, as are the back and tail fins: a
black line runs from each eye down to the nose; its belly is of a silvery white; the upper jaw projects beyond the lower, and is sur- rounded with six feelers, three on each side; its pectoral fins are large, its ventral m[r]

The moral fabric of any age, of any society, is a tapestry in which there are strikingly different and even antithetical motifs. Our pop- ular art forms show that the prevailing fashion in heroes runs to the extroverted he-man, the tough guy who saves the world with a terrific sock on the jaw[r]

TRANG 8 BEGINNING for instance, ought not to begin "The purpose of this paper is to contrast college and high school." It is smoother to es-tablish the subject by implication: "College a[r]

TRANG 6 CHAPTER 3 GRAMMAR, USAGE, AND MECHANICS Purpose, strategy, and style are decided by you.. But the de-cision must be made within limits set by rules over which you have little con[r]

James Oliver Robertson
Citation Terms
A citation term is a word used to refer to itself rather than to the object or concept or feeling it conventionally designates. Usually such terms are italicized, but sometimes they are quoted. (They should never be treated both ways.) T[r]

Based on this observation, one study randomised 88 patients into three groups: a standard group managed using a central venous pressure (CVP) line, a Pulmonary artery (PA) catheter group in which treatments were given to achieve normal values of cardiac output and oxygen delivery, and anothe[r]

TRANG 4 FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE When it comes to guilt, a respected in some told us, as her considered verdict on the Nazi program, that evil is word that means something so ordinary that yo[r]

railway ahead of us. Ernest Hemingway
Duffus's sentence moves in carefully articulated parts: two primary clauses separated by the semicolon, and, within each of these, three secondary units marked by commas. Each of the six units has a similar pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, a patte[r]

Thirdly, I worry about the private automobile. It is a dirty, noisy, wasteful, and lonely means of travel. It pollutes the air, ruins the safety and sociability of the street, and exercises upon the individual a discipline which takes away far more freedom than it gives him. It causes an enormous am[r]

Communication around this area can be difficult. The UK guidelines set out a legal and ethical framework for CPR decisions. The British Medical Association Ethics Department has also produced a patient leaflet on CPR [23].
Various investigators have attempted to predict outcome following ca[r]

TRANG 5 Guide Ss use phrases: _played badminton _ _drew a picture _ _sang songs _ To take part in part 1 to practice Activity 410’ 3.Listen and check - Guide Ss to listen and check - Cal[r]

5 As you may have guessed, this is an impossible blood gas – the answer is laboratory error!
6 There is an acidaemia (low pH) due to a very low st bicarbonate (metabolic acidosis). The PaCO 2 is appropriately low, although it should be lower than this – approximately 2.5 kPa, possibly indic[r]

discussing each in turn. G. K. Chesterton, for example, ana-
lyzes the category "people” In this way:
Roughly speaking, there are three kinds of people ¡in this world. The first kind of people are People; they are the largest and probably the most val[r]

(2) COMPARISON, CONTRAST, AND ANALOGY I I 5
The difference between a sign and a symbol is, in brief. . . .
Susanne K. Langer
It is a temptation to make a c o m p a r i s o n between the nineteen t w e n - ties a n d the nineteen sixties, but the similarities are fewer than the dif[r]