Preparations for an Integrated Writing Task:
iBT TOEFL & Academic Writing Assessment (AWA)

 

 

1.    Review Essay Questions: Types and Strategies for Answering them.

2.   Review the tips & samples for Integrated Writing: Inside the TOEFL® Test: Writing Question 1 (9:23 min) 

 

3.  Use the handout Techniques of Sentence Combination -- Using Discourse Markers to select appropriate discourse markers and use them with correct sentence structure and punctuation.

4.  Suggested phrases for writing the paragraph in response to the prompt:

  • In the lecture, the professor thinks that ...

  • Contrary to the belief in the reading, …

  • The author acknowledges that …

  • Whereas …

  • One further point the lecturer mentions is that ….

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