Tham khảo tài liệu 'thea writting review 1', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | THEA WRITING REVIEW Redundancy First uniforms would save parents money. Avoid redundancy. Try to keep your sentences as succinct as possible without losing meaning. Make every word and phrase count. Take a look at the following examples of redundant phrases and replacement words you can use for concise writing NOT BUT during the course of during in the event that if in the near future soon plan in advance plan past history past green in color green true facts facts Unecessary Sentences and Sentence Order In the multiple-choice writing portion of THEA you will need to identify sentences in a passage that do not support the main idea. On the essay portion you should avoid writing sentences that are not on the same general topic as the rest of the paragraph. The order of the sentences in a paragraph is just as important as the order of the paragraphs in an essay. For example if you are writing about money parents will save put all the sentences on money together. Provide transitions for your sentences just as you did with your paragraphs. You can join sentences with transition words such as besides second lastly or you can put in topic sentences. Try rearranging the paragraph on parents in a logical order. You have two topics money and peace in the family. So add a topic sentence to announce the first idea The fake survey you added at the end of the paragraph reports statistics on both money and peace so that s a great way to tie the two topics together. The rest of the sentences should all fit under one of the two topics. If you have something that doesn t fit just leave it out. Run-On Sentences Before you move on to problems with words in the next lesson take a look at a problem sentence from the second body paragraph on school uniforms. Children who dress differently are alienated from cliques at school and left to feel like outsiders and are teased unmercifully and end up losing a lot of self-esteem. Do you see that this sentence goes on and on It should have been
