Reading writing skills 2. Writing Skill: Learn to write paragraphs based on rhetorical questions. Rhetorical questions are questions that the writer asks in order to make a point, not because s/he doesnt know the answer. On the one hand. the writer already knows or thinks s/he knows how most people will answer these questions. On the other hand, the writer answers his own rhetorical questions. Example Have you ever had a brilliant idea that you never told anyone about Too many of us neglect our own moments of genius because we dont have enough confidence When you hear the word"genius", do you automatically think it refers to someone else Probably-and thats the biggest barrier to being a genius yourself
Reading & Writing Skills 2. Writing Skill: Learn to write paragraphs based on rhetorical questions. Rhetorical questions are questions that the writer asks in order to make a point, not because s/he doesn’t know the answer. On the one hand, the writer already knows or thinks s/he knows how most people will answer these questions. On the other hand, the writer answers his own rhetorical questions. Example: Have you ever had a brilliant idea that you never told anyone about ? Too many of us neglect our own moments of genius because we don’t have enough confidence. When you hear the word “genius”, do you automatically think it refers to someone else ? Probably—and that’s the biggest barrier to being a genius yourself
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Intensive Study Unwritten rules Bob greene The restaurant was almost full. a steady hum of conversation hung over the room; people spoke with each other and worked on their meals 2 Suddenly, from a table near the center of the room, came a screaming voice: Damn it, Sylvia
Unwritten Rules Bob Greene 1 The restaurant was almost full. A steady hum of conversation hung over the room; people spoke with each other and worked on their meals. 2 Suddenly, from a table near the center of the room, came a screaming voice: “Damn it, Sylvia....” Intensive Study
Intensive Study 3 The man was shouting at the top of his voice. His face was red, and he yelled at the woman sitting opposite him for about fifteen seconds. In the crowded restaurant it seemed like an hour all other conversations in the room stopped, and everyone looked at the man He must have realized this, because just as suddenly as he had started, he lowered his voice and finished whatever it was he had to say in a tone the rest of us could not hear
3 The man was shouting at the top of his voice. His face was red, and he yelled at the woman sitting opposite him for about fifteen seconds. In the crowded restaurant, it seemed like an hour. All other conversations in the room stopped, and everyone looked at the man. He must have realized this, because just as suddenly as he had started, he lowered his voice and finished whatever it was he had to say in a tone the rest of us could not hear. Intensive Study
Intensive Study It was startling precisely because it almost never happens; there are no laws against such explosions, and with the pressures of our modern world you would almost expect to run into such things on a reqular basis. But you don't; as a matter of fact, when I thought it over I realized that it was the first time in my life i had witnessed such a demonstration. during all the meals Ive had in restaurants, I had never seen a person start screaming at the top of his lungs
4 It was startling precisely because it almost never happens; there are no laws against such explosions, and with the pressures of our modern world you would almost expect to run into such things on a regular basis. But you don't; as a matter of fact, when I thought it over I realized that it was the first time in my life I had witnessed such a demonstration. During all the meals I've had in restaurants, I had never seen a person start screaming at the top of his lungs. Intensive Study