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Another great website for English language learning!

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BBC Learning English - Learn English with BBC Learning English - Homepage

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Every week, I offer idiom sessions at the American Corner in Karaganda. You can learn some cool phrases by looking at these PowerPoint presentations. Enjoy!

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Somebody asked about reading resources today, and so I wanted to share this great resource with all of you. VoA is absolutely wonderful, full of interesting news stories, with quizzes, idioms, and great instructional videos. Enjoy!

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Voice of America - Learn American English with VOA Learning English

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Learn American English with English language lessons from Voice of America. VOA Learning English helps you learn English with vocabulary, listening and comprehension lessons through daily news and interactive English learning activities.

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Here's another sample for you to try on your own! Give yourself 50 minutes to write the essay. Then email me at brt91@humboldt.edu and share the essay with me. I'll let you know what I think about it!

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Gioia uses various stylistic elements to add power to the ideas expressed. His word choice greatly impacts his essay by better explaining his topic in a more detailed and interesting way. In the first paragraph, Gioia describes how income, college attendence, and access to information all increased by using words such as ballooned, enormously, and unforeseen.

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Here's the essay we looked at in today's session.

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In Paul Bogard's essay "Let there be Dark" he emphasizes the importance of natural darkness. Bogard begins his argument by first providing a story from his personal experience, appealing to the reader by adding imagery. "I knew night skies in which meteors left smoky trails across sugary spreads of stars."

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Here are some examples of really nice personal statement essays. What can you learn from these essays?

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Guide to applying to colleges and universities. Tips to help you in the college admissions process.

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This is a really handy list of transition words and phrases you can use in your essay!

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One of your primary goals as a writer is to present ideas in a clear and understandable way. To help readers move through your complex ideas, you want to be intentional about how you structure your paper as a whole as well as how you form the individual paragraphs that comprise it. In order to think through the challenges of presenting your ideas articulately, logically, and in ways that seem natural to your readers, check out some of these resources: Developing a Thesis Statement, Paragraphing, and Developing Strategic Transitions: Writing that Establishes Relationships and Connections Between Ideas.

While clear writing is mostly achieved through the deliberate sequencing of your ideas across your entire paper, you can guide readers through the connections you're making by using transitional words in individual sentences. Transitional words and phrases can create powerful links between your ideas and can help your reader understand your paper's logic.

In what follows, we've included a list of frequently used transitional words and phrases that can help you establish how your various ideas relate to each other. We've divided these words and phrases into categories based on the common kinds of relationships writers establish between ideas.

Two recommendations:
Use these transitions strategically by making sure that the word or phrase you're choosing matches the logic of the relationship you're emphasizing or the connection you're making. All of these words and phrases have different meanings, nuances, and connotations, so before using a particular transitional word in your paper, be sure you understand its meaning and usage completely, and be sure that it's the right match for your paper's logic.
Use these transitional words and phrases sparingly because if you use too many of them, your readers might feel like you are overexplaining connections that are already clear.

Transitions to help establish some of the most common kinds of relationships
Causation- Connecting instigator(s) to consequence(s).

Combinations
Lists-Connecting numerous events.Connecting numerous elements that make up something bigger.

finally
first, firstly
further
furthermore
in addition
in the first place
in the second place

Contrast-Connecting two things by focusing on their differences.

as an illustration
e.g., (from a Latin abbreviation for "for example")

to demonstrate
to illustrate

foundationally
most importantly

of less importance
primarily

Location-Connecting elements according to where they are placed in relationship to each other.

by the same token
in like manner

in similar fashion
here
in the same way
Other kinds of transitional words and phrases
Clarification
i.e., (from a Latin abbreviation for "that is")
in other words

to put it another way
to rephrase it

of course
surely
to repeat

undoubtedly
without doubt
yes

for this purpose
in order that

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Transitional words and phrases can create powerful links between ideas in your paper and can help your reader understand the logic of your paper. However, these words all have different meanings, nuances, and connotations. Before using a particular transitional word in your paper, be sure you understand its meaning and usage completely and be sure...

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This is another great resource for materials related to writing transitions effectively.

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This is the response we worked on during today's session. See if you can come up with something similarly effective for the second practice essay!

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Here are the materials we used to discuss SAT essay preparation today. Follow the links on this page for our sample essay prompts!

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Try writing a sentence to describe each of the graphs below. You'll be an IELTS-ready professional very soon! :)

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This page is a HUGE resource for people who want to become better at writing about charts and graphs. See if you can improve your skills by using these materials!

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A good hook is a great addition to any personal statement. Learn about hook writing here, in this presentation!

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The difference between a good essay and a great essay is often effective use of transition words and phrases. This PowerPoint presentation will help you get started with using transition words effectively.

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Introduction to Personal Statement Writing (PowerPoint)

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Introduction to Personal Statement Writing (PowerPoint)

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Writing Your Personal Statement--Dos and Don'ts

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Writing Your Personal Statement--Dos and Don'ts