REASONING SKILLS SUCCESS IN 20 MINUTES A DAY THIRD EDITION

your reading skills step by step in just 20 minutes a day. Practice exercisesin each chapter allow you to put the reading strategies you learn intoimmediate practice. If you read a chapter a day, Monday through Friday,and do all the exer[r]

of your everyday thought process. Then when you arepressed for time, you’ll be able to reason through thesituation quickly and effectively.If any of this sounds confusing, don’t worry—each of these ideas will be explained thoroughly in thelessons that follow. What’s important is that you work[r]

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–SAMPLE ESSAY EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS–160Mario has also taught me about unconditional love. Unconditional love means you love someone notbecause of what they can do for you, or what they have done for you, but just because you love them.Mario also has influenced me to enjoy the simple gifts in<[r]

sionally ineffective language or jargon. times inappropriate.language. word choice.Grammar Virtually error free. A few grammatical Several grammati- Many grammatical Most sentences errors, but none cal errors; may errors; often inter- have grammatical that interfere with interfere with fere w[r]

Sentence B: The football team practiced in the torrential downpour.In both cases, sentence B allows you to hear the voice and impressions of the writer, giving a more accurate andinteresting picture of the action.The right modifiers (adjectives and adverbs) can also get your mess[r]

Lesson 10Practice 1 and 2Look again at the outline for school uniforms (a response for Practice 1 of Lesson 7), noticing how each of thethree main supporting ideas has several supporting ideas of its own. In the following, you’ll find additional sup-port for one of those ideas. Notice[r]

13. c. 1714. b. 18QUESTION ANSWER LESSON15. b. 1216. d. 1617. e. 5, 818. b. 5, 619. d. 1520. a. 11–ANSWER KEY–191Posttest, Part 2Use the scoring chart on pages 174–175 to evaluate your essay. After you assign a number for each of the categoriesshown on the chart, average the numbers t[r]

A Solution or RecommendationConclude with a solution to the problem you’ve discussed, or a recommendation for future action. This strategywill serve you well later, when you’re asked to write business memos or reports. Here is a conclusion from an essaythat examines misin[r]

reinforce the meanings of each new word you havelearned. Then, at the end of the book, you will take a75-question posttest so that you can see how muchyou’ve learned as you’ve worked through this book.The pretest that follows this Introduction willhelp you see how good you are at identifying unfamil[r]

in your topic?If you are writing a research paper or other type of nonpersonal writing, and your topic is already selectedor assigned, concentrate on the standard W’s: who, what, where, when, and why. These questions will help youquickly develop a great deal of information about[r]

SECTION 4 Taking an Essay Exam 141LESSON 18 Preparing for an Essay Exam 143LESSON 19 Drafting, Editing, and Proofreading 151LESSON 20 Sample Essay Exam Questions and Answers 157POSTTEST 163ANSWER KEY 173ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 193–CONTENTS–viYou probably can’t even count how many essays you’ve w[r]

331■Resist the temptation to look back at what you have written during the process.■If you can’t stay on topic, keep writing anything to maintain the flow.■Don’t censor yourself; no one will see your freewriting, so commit every thought to paper.■Follow your ideas wherever they lead you.■When finished[r]

Whenever you’re building an argument (and in most essays, that’s exactly what you’re doing), it’s most effec-tive to start with the least important idea and move to the most important. A good argument is like a snowballrolling down a hill. It builds momentum and strength[r]

7. a new twist on a familiar phraseA QuotationStart with a quote from a text, a film, a subject-matter expert, or even a friend or relative if he or she said some-thing relevant to the topic and of interest to your reader.“All animals are equal, but some anim[r]

with the boy she had been dating and hadcome to the party only at her friends’ insis-tence. She had been making a few attemptsto enjoy herself, but she was ambivalentabout meeting anyone or trying to have agood time. Knowing that a good remedyfor an aching heart can be two moving feet,[r]

– VOCABULARY LIST 8: LEGAL TERMS–136Choosing the Right WordCircle the word in bold that best completes the sentence.31. Her father died (ipso facto, intestate) so she andher siblings had difficulty dividing his estate.32. Before we could close the deal, the borrowerhad to provide evidence to t[r]

refers to making a liquid muddy by stirringup sediment. Though one may become vexedor roiled if cheated by another, cheat is not asynonym of roil.29. d. twist. Bane describes fatal injury or ruin.Twist would not be a synonym, as it is notnecessarily the cause of harm, ruin, or death.30[r]

3. Because dogs do not have a hand, they have to grab things with their jaws.4. New Yorkers are stereotyped as being, but this is not usuallythe case.5. “He is the very pineapple of politeness,” is afamous said by a char-acter in the play The Rivals.6. I was unable to myselffrom[r]