Essays Test

Essay Test

Choose one of the following essays:

1. Education comes not from books but from practical experience.

Write a unified essay in which you perform the following tasks. Explain what you think the above statement means. Describe a specific situation in which books might educate students better than practical experience. Discuss what you think determines when practical experience provides a better education than books do.

2- Every family has a history. A timeline can show events in a family’s history.  Write an essay that discusses a very important event that took place in your family history and had an impact on your family members.

Your essay should include the following:

1. Title
2. Introduction:

- specifying the importance of your family in your life.

- Introduce the unique event that took place.

Body:

-          List sequential events, birthday’s celebrations, engagement in the family …

 

-          Draw pictures for the event by telling exactly what happened.

-          How this event affected your family and what was the family reaction.

Conclusion:

Express your family feeling, reaction, and opinion about what happened.

Note:

Try to be specific and use chronological order for the event, effects. Use correct grammar and transition words.

Essay evaluation will depend on the students’ knowledge of the following:

1.      Knowledge: recall, arrange, list, identify.

2.      Comprehension: describe, explain, recognize, restate, review, translate, classify; give examples; (re)state in own words

3.      Application: apply, illustrate, interpret, operate, solve, predict, utilize

4.      Analysis: analyze, compare, contrast, distinguish, examine, experiment, diagram; outline

5.      Synthesis: design, develop, formulate, propose, construct, create, reorganize, integrate, model, incorporate, plan

6.      Evaluation: evaluate, argue, assess, compare, contrast, conclude, defend, judge, support, interpret, justify.

·        When writing your essay try to be as neat as possible.

References:

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