Your processor is teaching a class, write a post responding to the professor's question. In your response, you should do the following. ·Express and support your opinion. ·Make a contribution to the discussion in your own words. An effective response will contain at least 100 words.

Doctor Gupta： This week, I want you to discuss assessment criteria. Some schoolteachers give high grades (marks) only to those students who perform well on their homework assignments and tests. Other teachers, however, may give high grades to students who have worked very hard on their assignments but have not performed so well. Which approach do you think is better: Giving grades based only on performance, or grading students not just on performance but also on their effort?

Kelly： I think grades should be based on performance only. It's a matter of fairness. I'd be really upset if another student got nearly the same grade…

Your professor is teaching a class on sociology. Write a post responding to the professor's question. In your response, you should do the following. ·Express and support your opinion. ·Make a contribution to the discussion in your own words. An effective response will contain at least 100 words.

Doctor Achebe： Let's think about population trends in urban and rural areas (villages). Living in urban areas can be expensive; nonetheless, when they have a choice of where to live, people in some countries do not wish to live in rural areas even if the cost of living there is lower. If governments of some countries want to attract more people to live in rural areas or villages, what is the best strategy or approach that governments can use? Why?

Claire： I would live in a rural area if the government gave more financial help to farmers. Although it may cost very…

Your professor is teaching a class on public policy. Write a post responding to the professor's question. In your response, you should do the following. ·Express and support your opinion. ·Make a contribution to the discussion in your own words. An effective response will contain at least 100 words.

Doctor Gupta： This week, we will be discussing a shortage of affordable housing that exists in many countries. In these places, housing-both apartments (flats) and houses-are expensive, because populations are growing faster than new housing is being built. Now, think about places in your country that have a housing shortage. In your post, I would like you to indicate the most effective way for the government to address a housing shortage in your country. Please explain why you think so.

Claire： In my country, there is a lack of affordable housing in the big cities. Low-cost housing exists in areas outside of…

Your professor is teaching a class, write a post responding to the professor's question. In your response, you should do the following. ·Express and support your opinion. ·Make a contribution to the discussion in your own words. An effective response will contain at least 100 words. Doctor Achebe： Next, we'll be discussing the future of higher education, focusing on proposals for making postsecondary education (education after high school) more efficient and more accessible. One such proposal is to make class attendance optional. For instance, under an optional-attendance policy, university students could choose not to attend classes but instead study the course materials and acquire the knowledge on their own time. Their grade would then be based entirely on exams or papers. What are your thoughts on this approach?

Claire： I like the idea of optional attendance. University students have a lot going on, and sometimes it's difficult to make it to…

Contractions and abbreviations in academic writing.

Many test takers use contractions and abbreviations in academic writing however, though some raters will let them pass, it is important to note that using them in an academic writing can cause issues and thus may not be suitable.

One of the main reasons why contractions are not acceptable is that they make the writing less formal. Contractions are an informal way of writing, an academic writeup is a formal writing.

As for abbreviations, apart from being informal, they make the reading pretty hard most times and boring, especially when sundry are used. Look at the following sentences:

In this section, you are asked what the word, usually highlighted refers to in the reading. Thus we may say, are basically similar to vocabulary questions because they require you to state what a word or phrase highlighted in the passage refers to. Reference words are usually pronouns, for example,

1-   Subject pronoun: it, they

2-   Object pronoun: it, them

3-   Demonstrative pronoun: these, those, this, that

4-   Possessive adjectives: its, their

SCORE DESCRIPTION

BAND 5

A fully successful response

The response is a relevant and very clearly expressed contribution to the online discussion, and it demonstrates consistent

facility in the use of language.

The TOEFL Yes or No Question type.

Sample Question: Yes or No

Your professor is teaching a class on marketing. Write a post responding to the professor’s question.  In your response, you should:

    express and support your personal opinion

Dr.Gupta: For this weeks discussion, let's think about how physical activity affects childhood development. Some parents stress the importance of organized sports, and many young children spend a considerable amount of their time focused on athletics. While organized sports can be beneficial, some people caution that too much emphasis on sports can also be a problem. Before our next class, please use the discussion board to share your thoughts about how sports affect children.

Paul: One benefit is that kids who play team sports spend less of their time using screens. Young children who don't play sports are more likely to spend their time watching television or using computers.Unfortunately,young children who use screens for two or more hours a day are at greater risk for behavioral problems Clearly, kids should be physically active.

Claire: We should balance athletics with other important skills. For example,focusing excessively on organized sports might lead…