Week 4 Writing Exam on Thursday!
This week we’ll
read, do some listening activities, review grammar and play a game, before the
writing exam.
Not many of you have written the essays or the poetry for this
class and a number of you have not sent any of the quizzes. It will be very
hard to pass the class without doing the work.
This week is the first Writing
Exam, do you feel prepared? Is there anything that you need to work on before
Thursday? The essay will be a persuasive essay and the topic will be “In the
case of capital murder which do you believe is more just the death penalty or
life in prison?” As always you’ll write 350 words in one hour.
I don't understand the topic of the essay. I just, I really don't get it. Somebody can't help me please?
ReplyDeleteYou have to write about which one do you think is the best way to penalize a person that have committed a Capital murder(planned murder), and why. Do you think we should kill those that have committed murder? Or they should continue living in prison...
DeleteJenny!
DeleteWhen a criminal kills somebody; Which do you think is the most just way to punish this person? This person deserves to live (life in prison) or do you think this person deserves to die? (death penalty).
Oscar,
DeleteGreat answer! Very clear! There are only two choices Life in prison or death... Straightforward and clear!
Thank you all!!! I feel more secure about the essay. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!! FIGHTING!!! :3
DeleteHello Jenny, for me it is easy to explain you which ever the topic is,first I think if you are agree with The Death Penalty, just show us what do you think, or if you are agree with The Sentence of Life in Prison, just tell us what do you think about it, bye bye.
Deleteyes! you must to explain which is better for you, (like punishment to criminal) death penalty or the criminal living in prison without possibility of parole and why do you choose that.
ReplyDeleteand you have to mention some real facts, that will help you to convince the reader and don't forget to write the source of you information
DeleteI think that for those who already made an essay for this topic, should be easier to take this first writing exam.
ReplyDeleteI would like to think I'm prepared enough to take this exam, but I'm still a little nervous about my writing skills.
Yes, i think the same,because if you did your essay you actualy know what mistakes do you have.
DeleteDacia,
DeleteDon't be worried, simply be organized and have your points ready to make. I'm sure you'll be fine.
The hard part of this kind of essay is being understood in the second language. Persuasive writing is an 8th semester requirement because by now you should be ready to express yourself and what you believe without difficulty in your second language.
I agree with you Dacia and Adri... I think that is necessary to prepare our topic before the writing exam because we can think and organize better our ideas.
DeleteMy question is if we need to put positive and negative points about the two punishments or just for the one that we think it is the best.
ReplyDeleteBoth! You need to know both sides of the argument well enough to say clearly why one side is better than the other, without waffling (don't be unclear!)on any point. Put your point, why you agree or disagree and move on to the next point. Be concise, ultimately it's 350 words so you have to be dead on!
DeleteToday's Class was very helpful for me because in spite we all know the mistakes we made, Cindy gave us a few advices that probably will help us to improve our grades. I feel prepared but let's see what happen!...
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. It is so useful know what are we doing bad. In this way, we can improve our English skills.
DeleteRegrettably, I couldn´t attend that class, I think that it would has helped me a lot.
DeleteThe class of yesterday helped me to understand a little bit more about the things I have to improve, this has been a really difficult essay to me because I can't find the way to convince to the reader but with the suggestions of yesterday I think was enough! Good luck everyone! :)
ReplyDeleteWell it is easy for me to convince everybody of my topic because life is the best in any cases, good lock,bye, bye.
DeleteWhat I need to practice are prepositions, really I think I need a lot. Talking about The Sentence of Life in Prison, I think is better to live than to die immediately. That would be my topic, in my next essay.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you, Adriana. We need to work more on prepositions. As the saying goes: practice makes you perfect.
DeleteYes, we need to practice prepositions and other topics and to converse in class, we only write and watch movies, just sometimes is different...
DeleteYesterday before the exam I was very nervous, it was like if I had forgotten everything, but certainly the outline Cindy gave us, was very useful for me to organize my ideas and also avoid misunderstandings in the essay. While I was having the exam, I felt sure of what I was writing; really it was easy. Cindy´s help was amazing.
ReplyDeleteOh dear! I had never written anything in English with pen. It was always with pencil. I have fear!
ReplyDeleteYesterday, during the exam, I wasted a lot of time reading the arguments for and against.. When she said, that we have just nine minutes, I had wrote only the half of the words... And, I think that I have to increase my vocabulary, I need to know more synonyms because I wrote murderer, criminal, killer, several times.
ReplyDeleteI spend the same. In those minutes, I wrote as fast as never in my life, ja.
DeleteLadies! You both did fine... I have no idea why you worry so much you are both talented writers...
DeleteI´ve never liked the exams because I always get so nervous... For the writing exam, I think that the best way to prepare it is doing the essay since before because we have a chance to think and better organize our ideas. In addition, we can know our mistakes before. Regrettably, this semester is very hard for me and I almost didn´t have free time to practice mi english. However, I am doing my best to keep learning...
ReplyDeleteI really do not know if I did a good job in my exam, I tried, but maybe in the next one... I expresed some of my ideas but maybe I failed in the structures and parameters of it.
ReplyDeleteI think you'll be satisfied with your grade!
DeleteAnd by the way, to decide about the life of a person (to live or to die) will be very difficult ever, it is a complex situation, more when a crime is in the middle...
ReplyDeleteI wish you all luck in your written exam, in my opinion the topic of the essay is difficult. I'm a little nervous, I'm not very good at writing :)
ReplyDeleteThe topic of this essay is very controversial, for that reason we need to think very deeply about ours values, feelings and ideas.
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