The only way to be certain of an excellent TOEFL® score is to be able to read, write, understand, and speak English like an educated native speaker. You have no doubt been developing your ability in these areas for many years now. | Step 4 In complete sentences answer the following questions about the organization of the response in Step 2. 1. Which side of the prompt does this essay take 2. How does the writer support the thesis statement 3. Does the writer present a comment or idea from the other side in the conclusion If so what is the comment or idea 4. What is the main idea of the conclusion Read the sample response presenting another possible answer to the prompt from Step 1. Even though many people like working in teams I prefer to work on projects by myself. Since working alone has so many advantages it is obvious to me that working alone is a better way to complete a project. First I believe that working alone allows a person to finish a job more quickly. Team projects take a long time to complete because teams require each person to be responsible for only a small part of the entire project. As a result individual members of a team must often wait for other people before they can complete their work. This makes working in teams a lot slower and less efficient than working alone. Additionally requiring people to work aione helps the person in charge to ensure that everyone is doing his or her job. With group work it is easy for team members to come up with an excuse when they fail to do the necessary work. This has happened to me many times when I was put into teams. Usually I was the one forced to do most of the work. Yet obvious easily understood self-explanatory entire whole no part left out excuse a reason you give to explain why you have not done something or why you have done something badly discern to see or recognize something flexibility being easily modified or altered to specific conditions schedule a pian a timetable for one s day-to-day activities 568 Chapter 4 since people who work alone are the only ones responsible for completing preference their work it is easier to discern who is and is not completing their work over anoth0r oh time. Working alone also tends to give
