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Lesson Four: Getting started and Revising

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Introduction

We have already learned how to structure a TOEFL independent essay and how to generate main ideas and supporting ideas in a paragraph in the previous lessons. Now it's time for you to try to write a complete essay to see how well you can do!

Wait! That's not all for this lesson! After writing a first draft, a more important thing to do is to revise it. Learning and practicing revising is a slow process, but after you grasp the strategies of revising English writing, the quality of your writing can get incredibly increased.

Lesson Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to

  1. demonstrate knowledge on revising strategies.
  2. write and revise a draft by using the revising methods being taught.

Lesson Activities

  • Write an TOEFL independent essay of the following topic,
    • 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.
  • Go to the page [1], read and learn about draft revision
  • Go to the page[2], read through the essay revision checklist.
  • Use the checklist on the above web page to revise your independent essay.
  • Discuss with your peers how you go through a revising process and what revising methods are best for you.

Assignments

  • Write a TOEFL independent essay on the following topic
    • People attend school for many different reasons (for example, expanded knowledge, societal awareness, and enhanced interpersonal relationships). Why do you think people decide to go to school? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
  • Revise your writing by using the revising skills you have learned in this lesson.

Reflection

Through the activities and assignments in this lesson, the learners should have understood the revising techniques that can be useful and beneficial for them for test-taking. They should have understood that learning revising is a process. At the beginning, revising an essay could be time consuming. After considerable amount of practicing, the revising process can go very fast and smoothly, thus it is very beneficial for test takers to use and strengthen the quality of their independent writing in real-test situation.


To go on to the next unit click here: Lesson Five: Test taking strategies

Click here to return to the beginning of the course:TOEFL ibt Independent Writing Step-by-step

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