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TSI Writing: Identifying the Best Opening Sentence for an Essay 15 Views
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Which of the following would make the best introductory sentence for the passage?
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- 00:03
Okay see writing shmoop uppers We've got a whole new
- 00:06
section here is on coherence organization and word choice of
- 00:10
the evil three here So as with all these questions
- 00:13
let's get to the answer first and then we'll go
- 00:15
back and you're quick skin it's critical to understand how
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to properly dispose of and recycle electronic kiosks available Mp
- 00:22
three players boy that's written a long time ago and
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flights of ban if you agree to sell the crackling
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seventy percent devices Second like probably in context which of
- 00:34
the following would make the best introductory sentence for the
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passage So that is good because all we have to
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really skim is the first part of it here Okay
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so let's think about this Well we want to get
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hooked Not like a marlin or trout but is a
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reader right We need something snazzy Something that's going to
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catch our attention right from the start Like hello She
- 00:59
lied Yeah something something like that Sometimes the best lead
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in is something that appeals to our everyday lives Excuse
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us while we fish those old remote control's out of
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the trash Those we look through the list here Well
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c is the only one that's really kind of grabby
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there's A common misperception is okay to put electronic devices
- 01:20
and batteries in the trash like you just killed eight
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thousand goldfish downstream or something like that So that's probably
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only catchy ones that actually works so let's go through
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the loser bowl here just to be sure A good
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old question Well sometimes do it for us but well
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we don't want to be insulted before we start to
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read right So you were baking a there Yeah like
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yell Otis Mom what you doing there We also like
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statistics but only if they don't tell us The whole
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point of the essay is really not an actual problem
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for most people yeah like don't jump out of airplanes
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It's dangerous Yeah i don't do that anyway so thanks
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for the warning The transition word is great to get
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our tension but we don't want to place the conclusion
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in the introduction right D would be good at the
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very end maybe yeah okay so that's it it's say
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we're smoked and we're gonna go do some recycling of 00:02:10.086 --> [endTime] jokes
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