Tham khảo tài liệu 'gmat exam success episode 2 part 4', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | ----------------------------- GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE WRITING --------------------------------------- Each of these underlined adjectives has much more impact than the adjective good. These exact modifiers create a vivid picture they tell the reader more precisely what is good about the argument and how it is effective. Use exact verbs nouns adjectives and adverbs throughout your essay. The more precise you can be the more impact your writing will have. Appropriate Level of Formality Your audience determines your level of formality and this is also controlled by word choice. The level of formality can range from the very informal slang to the very formal esoteric and ceremonial to everything in between. Writers use word choice and sentence structure to manipulate the level of formality. Here are two examples A It was so cool. I mean I never saw anything like it before. What a great flick You have to check it out. B It was really an impressive film unlike anything I ve ever seen before. You should definitely go see it. These two sentences are drastically different in style and in particular in the level of formality. Although they both tell the same story and use the personal first-person I each writer has a different relationship with the reader. The word choice and style the short sentences and the very casual language indicate that the writer of passage A has a more informal more friendly relationship with the reader than the writer of passage B. The emotion of the writer in passage A is much more transparent too because the language is more informal and natural. You get the idea that passage A is addressed to a close friend whereas passage B might be addressed to a colleague or supervisor. In your essay be sure to write at an appropriate level of formality. Do not use slang but do not be excessively formal either. For example the following sentence is too informal and slangy for the general audience of the GMAT exam The restaurant owners would be nuts to just get up
