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Toefl: Test of English As A Foreing Language

The TOEFL test assesses English proficiency of non-native speakers in three sections. The writing section contains two tasks: an integrated writing task and an independent writing task. For the integrated task, test takers read a passage and listen to a lecture on the same topic before writing an essay summarizing the key points of both and showing their relationship. The independent task requires test takers to write an essay expressing their own opinions on a given topic based solely on personal knowledge and experience. Effective strategies for the integrated task include focusing the essay on summarizing the lecture, keeping the response between 200-300 words, and paraphrasing rather than directly quoting the reading passage.

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Toefl: Test of English As A Foreing Language

The TOEFL test assesses English proficiency of non-native speakers in three sections. The writing section contains two tasks: an integrated writing task and an independent writing task. For the integrated task, test takers read a passage and listen to a lecture on the same topic before writing an essay summarizing the key points of both and showing their relationship. The independent task requires test takers to write an essay expressing their own opinions on a given topic based solely on personal knowledge and experience. Effective strategies for the integrated task include focusing the essay on summarizing the lecture, keeping the response between 200-300 words, and paraphrasing rather than directly quoting the reading passage.

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TOEFL

TEST OF ENGLISH AS A FOREING LANGUAGE


WRITING SECTION
Writing Task Details

You are given 3 minutes to read an academic passage. After reading the passage,
you listen to a lecture on the same topic. Then you write an essay summarizing
the lecture and the reading passage and showing the relationship between them.
You should not express your own opinion of the issues and you should not bring
Integrated Writing Task
in any information form outside the passage and the lecture.

Reading: 3 minutes
Writing: 20 minutes

You read a prompt (a topic) and express your opinions in your response. Your
response is based entirely on your own knowledge and experience.
Independent Writing Task
Writing: 30 minutes
INTEGRATED QUESTION STYLES
1 2 3
INTEGRATED WRITING
TASK
INTRODUCTIO
N (main topic)

SUPPORTING
ARGUMENT /
PROBLEM /
SOLUTION

SUPPORTING
ARGUMENT /
PROBLEM /
SOLUTION

SUPPORTING
ARGUMENT /
PROBLEM /
SOLUTION
TAKING NOTES
TIPS

 The lecture summary is the most important part of the essay.  That should make up
about 60% of each body paragraph.
 Aim for between 200 and 300 words in total.
 Avoid copying from the reading word for word. Paraphrase as much as you can.
WRITING YOUR ESSAY
WRITING YOUR ESSAY
WRITING YOUR ESSAY
WRITING YOUR ESSAY

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