REVIEW OF ACADEMIC WRITING 1

• Building Better Sentences

Combine short sentences into a single sentence that expresses all the ideas in a logical and
grammatically correct manner.
Ex: a. Tina is my friend.
b. Tina works.
c. The work is at Washington Central Bank.
=> My friend, Tina, works at Washington Central Bank.
• a. Yesterday I studied in the library.
b. I studied there for three hours.
• =>
• a. The people work in the bookstore.
b. They are very helpful.
=>
• a. It looks like a net.
b. The net was for fishing.
c. The net was old.
• =>
• a. Carolina attends classes.
b. The classes are at Jefferson Community College.
c. The classes are on Wednesday.
=>
• a. Braille uses a code.
b. The code is special.
c. It is a code of sixty-three characters.
• =>
• a. A good restaurant uses ingredients.
b. The ingredients are fresh.
c. The ingredients are in its dishes.
• =>
• a. The biggest fear is people`s fear of making a speech in public.
b. This is most people’s fear.
 c. This is according to several recent surveys.
=>
• a. She parked her car.
b. She parked illegally.
c. She got a $30 ticket.
=>
• a. One of my vacations was spent here.
b. It was in London, England.
c. It was one of my greatest vacations.
=>
• a. The disaster was environmental.
b. The disaster was in the South Aral Sea.
c. The disaster will stay with me forever.
=>

• Sentence Transformation
Re-write the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first. Use NO MORE THAN
FIVE WORDS
Ex: I have not seen my parents for one year.
It is one year since ______________.
=> It is one year since I last saw my parents.
• Snowboarding is more dangerous than tennis.

• The last time I saw him was in 2001.

• Tom did not begin to read until he was eight.

• Algebra is too difficult for me to understand.

• You didn’t pass the exam because you didn’t study.

 • The police are questioning him.

• As he behaved badly, he must be punished.

• She could not afford to buy the car.

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• Although it rains, we go to school on time.

• It takes six hours to drive from here to London.

• Editing for Errors in a Paragraph

The paragraph below contains 10 errors. They are in prepositions (1), article (3), word form (3),
verb tense (2) and subject-verb agreement (1). Underline these errors and write the corrections
below.
An Effect of Modern Technology on Drives

One of the recent developments in the modern technology, cellular phones, can be threat
to safety. A recent study for Donald Redelmeier and Robert Tibshirani of the University of Toronto
showed that cellular phones pose a risk to drivers. In fact, people who talked on the phone while
driving are four time more lilekly to have an automobile accident than those who do not use the
phone while drive. The Toronto researchers studied 699 driver who had been in an automobile
accident they were using their cellular phones. The researchers concluded that the main reason
for the accident is not that people used one hand for the telephone and only one for driving.
Rather, cause of the accidents was usuallt that the drivers became distracted, angry, or upset by
the phone call. The drivers then lost concentration and was more prone to a car accident.

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• Paragraph
Write a paragraph (100-150 words) with the following topic:
Do you think University students should get a part-time job while studying?
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