Lesson 7

Structuring an essay( cont.)

GENERALIZATION
 review
the previous lesson
 Typical Question Words

What is your opinion?

Do you agree or disagree?

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Example Question

Computers are being used more and more in education and so there will soon be no role for the
teacher in education.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Sentence 1- Paraphrase Question
Sentence 2- Thesis Statement

Sentence 1- Topic Sentence

Sentence 2- Explain Topic Sentence
Sentence 3- Example
Sentence 4- counter argument AND refutation
Sentence 1- Topic Sentence
Sentence 2- Explain Topic Sentence
Sentence 3- Example
Sentence 4- counter argument AND refutation

Sentence 1- Summary
Sentence 2- Recommendation or Prediction
LISTING
Sentence 1- Paraphrase Question
Sentence 2- Thesis Statement
Sentence 1- Topic Sentence :listing the point
Sentence 2- Explain the point
Sentence 3- Example

Sentence 1- Topic Sentence :listing the point

Sentence 2- Explain the point
Sentence 3- Example

Sentence 1- Summary
Sentence 2- Recommendation or Prediction
Computes provided great benefits to modern society. Do
you agree or disagree?

Of all the great inventions in the modern time,

computers are the greatest that open a new era of
information technology and ease the jobs in all aspects.
Definitely, in my opinion, computers are benificial to our
overgeneralized
life in many ways
Definitely, in my opinion, computers are benificial to our
life in three main ways
body 1
First and foremost, computers can do things which
people could hardly do before.
Sentence 1- Topic Sentence :listing the point
That is to say, computers can work in the heavy and
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dangerous 2- Explain
industries suchtheas point
nuclear power plants and
chemicalSentence 3- where
factoties Example human beings are at great
risk.
The more simple thing is that people can find and share
information in just a few seconds, or spend their free
time reading electronic books, listening to music or
even connecting with people from the other corners of
the world. Yet without computer, people can never do
so.
body 2
Furthermore, many scientists agree that computer technology
plays a major role in modern medicine
With the assistance of computer technology, quite a few
advances in medical research have been accomplished.
For example, genetic engineers have recently been able to find
new cures for diseases like cancer, AIDS or diabets. However,
without computers which do most the calculating and
synthesizing jobs, this would never happen.

Sentence 1- Topic Sentence :listing the point

Sentence 2- Explain the point
Sentence 3- Example
conclusion
In short, a breakthrough in human history as it came,
computers are vital in the modern life.
In the future definitely with more inherent advances,
this type of artificial intelligence will turn many human
dreams to reality.

Sentence 1- Summary
Sentence 2- Recommendation or Prediction
Homework
TYPE 1: LISTING ( CAUSES AND EFFECTS)
Tourism is a modern form of colonialism. It distorts local economies, causes
environment damage and ruins the places it exploits. To what extent do
you agree?