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Stacey Koprince
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I'd grade this about a 3. It is clear that English is not your native language, and you will need to work on this in order to write a stronger essay. Some of the errors are significant enough to obscure your meaning, which has a much greater impact on your score than a few grammar or syntax errors spread throughout (though you also have lots of those).
For example, you say "I defer with the statement and would like to put forth some guiding thoughts behind the same. " "Defer" means either to postpone something or to hold back your own thoughts or opinions in preference to someone else's thoughts or opinions. That is definitely not the word you want here - the essay wants your opinion. Based on the rest of your essay, I think you want to say that you agree with the statement, but I had to read the rest of the essay to figure that out. I should know from the start what your thesis is. You don't need to start out with a sentence that just summarizes the statement; the grader will also be able to see the statement. You also don't want paragraphs that consist of just one sentence. Instead, you want to write about four complete paragraphs that do the following: - Intro paragraph (#1) State your thesis clearly (agree or disagree) while acknowledging that reasonable people might choose the other option. Mention the two examples you are going to use to support your thesis (don't go into detail). - Body paragraph (#2) Detail the best of your two examples. Make it concrete and real-world, not hypothetical; you use hypotheticals below. So, don't talk abstractly about how a company has clients and the clients trust the company etc. Talk about your company, and a specific incidence in which one of your clients trusted your company to do something or not to do something. Or talk about a company you read in a case study or magazine article - but it has to be a specific, real example. Then tie this example explicitly to the thesis you chose - spell out for the reader why this example supports your thesis. - Body paragraph (#3) Do the same thing with the second of your two examples. - Conclusion paragraph (#4) Restate your thesis while still acknowledging that reasonable people can disagree. (Use different words than you used in the intro, though.) Summarize why your examples support your thesis. Write a final "concluding sentence" that wraps everythiing up neatly. Good luck! |
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