tailieunhanh - Sat - MC Grawhill part 47

Tham khảo tài liệu 'sat - mc grawhill part 47', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 450 McGRAW-HILL S SAT Lesson 7 Write Logically Be Specific Consider the following paragraphs Your argument is much more effective when you discuss real and specific examples rather than hypothetical and general ones. You can generalize in your thesis and conclusion but be specific everywhere else. Consider this paragraph Although our Constitution provides us with the right to bear arms this right should not be a universal one. That s not what the Second Amendment was intended for. A lot of times it s not appropriate and just plain dangerous or foolish. This is obvious to anyone who reads newspapers or watches the TV news and knows about what is going on in the world. The argument isn t effective because it gives no specifics. Consider this improvement Although our Constitution provides us with the right to bear arms this right was intended only to protect citizens from the tyranny of government and not to arm citizens against one another. In many places for instance in schools and other public places the right to bear arms does not enhance public safety. Even the popular argument that it makes our homes safer is absurd. Rather it merely increases the likelihood that a problematic situation like an argument will turn deadly as it did last month when an eight-year-old boy shot his six-year-old sister to death in New Jersey. This revision is more forceful because it turns the generalizations into specifics and gives concrete examples. Help Your Reader with Logical Transitions Provide your readers with guideposts to help them understand the logical relationships between your ideas. These guideposts which usually come at the beginning of a paragraph or a sentence are called transitions. They include words like however to indicate a contrast therefore to indicate a result furthermore to indicate an extension of an argument first second or third to indicate a sequence of examples or reasons nevertheless to indicate irony and so on. Every first-year chemistry or physics .