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Integrated WritingThe professor admits| insists |points out | says |states |argues | asserts that …

The professor says about | talks about | discusses …

The professor uses | mentions… ( to illustrate … | showthat… )

In the lecture,

According to the lecture | professor,

The rst|second… point the professor makes is that…

 The Professor’s disagreement with the ideas in thereading passage

 The professor challenges the viewpoint expressed in the

reading, which… The professor’s statement that… challenges the viewpoint

expressed in the reading that… The professor places more value on… The professor is against…Although the reading supports…, the professor supports… The professor places ore importance on… This directly contrasts the reading, which… This clearly contrasts with the reading’s argument about… This goes against the reading passage’s claim that… | about… This weakens the reading’s claim that……refutes | rebuts the point made in the reading The professor casts doubt on the reading by… This position contrasts with the reading passage, which… This disproves the notion in the reading passage which states…!n contrast to the reading,

 The Professor’s support of the ideas in the reading

passage The professor … to support…

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Independent Writing

!ntroduction

#ome people say that… $ther people say that… ! agree% disagree with the view that…  There are several% a number of reasons why…

 There is no doubt in my mind that…

 There is no &uestion that…

!t is better% !t would be better to… than to… 'y preference is… instead of…

… is preferable to… because…

!t seems clear to me that…

! prefer the view that…

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 The )rst reason is that… * Another reason is that… + The

)nal reason is that…  This is because…

 Therefore, …% Thus, …

!n addition, …

 To illustrate this,  To be more speci)c, #uppose that % emember that % !magine that…

-or example, % -or instance,

.onclusion

/xamples like these show why 0 how 1… easons like these support the conclusion that…

-or these reasons,

-or the reasons above,

!n conclusion, … % To conclude, … !n short % !n brief % $n the whole % $verall , !t is wrong to say that  This%That is why ! think that…