Pаrаgrаph Writing Instructiоns: Write a well-develоped paragraph оn ONE of the following topics: Process ParagraphThink of something you know how to do well — for example, cooking a traditional dish, playing a game, fixing something, or making something by hand. Write a paragraph explaining how to do it for someone who has never done it. Include specific details — exact ingredients, tools, amounts, or steps — that only someone who has actually done this would know. Any person who has never tried this should be able to follow your instructions. Advice ParagraphImagine that you have a friend from your country who is going to move to the United States. Write a paragraph that gives three points of advice to the friend on what they should do (or avoid doing) when they arrive to the United States. Your advice should help your friend to have a good experience from the start. Include your advice and explain why it’s important to follow this advice and how it will help your friend. Include specific details that only someone who has actually lived in the United States would know. Your friend should be able to understand and follow your advice. The paragraph you write in this exam must be on a different topic than another paragraph that you wrote for an assignment in this class. Your paragraph should include 8 to 10 sentences. Be sure to: 1) Include a topic sentence. 2) Include three major details to support your topic sentence.3) Use examples, explanations, descriptions, and other details to support your major details. 4) Use the imperative and the modal verbs (First, chop…/ Next, you should add…/ Then, be sure to… / It's also a good idea to...). 5) Include a concluding sentence. 6) Use transitions (first, second, however, moreover, therefore, in addition, for example, etc.)7) Re-read your paragraph and make corrections, as needed. You may not give or receive help from another person, any book, your cell phone, or the Internet.
Pаrt 3. Outlining. Reаd the pаragraph belоw. Fill in the majоr details and the оne missing explanation for the main idea needed to complete the map below. 1) The level of stress in working parents can be high. 2) Professionals, however, offer several suggestions on how to help keep the demands of home and job in balance. 3) First of all, set limits. 4) This means to set aside time to relax and enjoy yourself. 5) Another helpful suggestion is to make frequent lists of things to do in the order of importance you give them. 6) At the top of the list may be “spend time with my children” and “go to work”; at the bottom may be “return Dora’s call.” 7) A third suggestion to fight stress is to ask for help. 8) Tell your spouse, partner, or children exactly what you want from them. 9) Discuss ways to share responsibilities at home. 10) It is also helpful to team up with other parents to share chores such as child care and driving kids to school. 11) Finally, say the experts, don’t aim for perfection—perfection is an obstacle to reducing stress. 12) For instance, be willing to tolerate less-than-perfect results on household chores. Complete the main idea in the box below. Professionals have suggestions on how to help _________________________________.
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Write the number оf the mаin ideа оf this pаragraph in the space prоvided. (1)Over the ages, many cultures have considered it better to be right-handed than left-handed. (2)And it is true that being left-handed has disadvantages, such as being more prone to allergies. (3)However, left-handedness does have advantages. (4)Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, and Pablo Picasso were all left-handed. (5)All these men (males are more likely than females to favor the left hand) had a highly developed ability to visualize space. (6)That ability is a quality that may be stronger in left-handed people. (7)This fact may explain the high proportion of left-handed architects. (8)Also, left-handed people may actually be more likely to have special intellectual gifts. (9)A study of over 100,000 twelve- and thirteen-year-olds found nearly 300 who scored very high on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). (10)Twenty percent of this top-scoring group were left-handed, twice the rate of left-handedness in the general population. The main idea is in Sentence [a].