First, using the transitional words and phrases handout, addat least 4 transitional words and phrases to the following paragraph and repost:
One reason people lie is to achieve personal power. Achieving personal power is helpful for someone who pretends to be more confident than he really is. One of my friends threw a party at his house last month. He asked me to come to his party and bring a date. I didn’t have a girlfriend. One of my other friends, who had a date to go to the party with, asked me about my date. I didn’t want to be embarrassed, so I claimed that I had a lot of work to do. I said I could easily find a date even better than his if I wanted to. I also told him that his date was ugly. I achieved power to help me feel confident. I embarrassed my friend and his date. This lie helped me at the time, since then it has made me look down on myself.
Next, also using the handout, writeone paragraph on the topic of your choice of at least 6 sentences that incorperates 4 transitional phrases and/or words and post online.
Last, when you are finished, look at your essay and incorperate some of these phrases and words into it in preparation for draft 3 to make your ideas flow more smoothly into each other.
Some suggestions for your paragraph topics:
Registering for classes
Getting to school in the morning
Any "how to" instructions: ex: How to ask for a date or How to ask for a raise
Caveat: Using first, next and last should be avoided for this assignment. Also, please do not take any "shortcuts" such as modifying existing writing unless it is your own as this will not have the same impact upon your writing skills.
Go to the following LINK and complete the Accuplacer sample test to preview the types of passages and questions you will encounter for your final exam.
When I took the test myself, I encountered some technical trouble with the auto score after I completed it. If it does not give you a result, do NOT close the page; we will go over the correct answers in class. You may also want to PRINT THE PAGE or save a PDF for your files to review it.
Here are some YouTube tutorial videos on Accuplacer. If you have your headphones, you may view it. Alternately, you may view it on MUTE and read the Closed Captions.
