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Writing A Comment

1. The document discusses how to write an effective comment by expressing a personal opinion on a subject or statement. 2. It provides guidelines for both preparing to write a comment, such as defining the problem, gathering arguments and considering alternative positions, as well as writing a comment, including stating the topic, giving an opinion, supporting it with detailed arguments, and drawing a conclusion. 3. The document also includes a checklist for reviewing a comment to ensure it is focused, clear, logically organized, convincing, and has a concluding summary rather than just a repetition.

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Writing A Comment

1. The document discusses how to write an effective comment by expressing a personal opinion on a subject or statement. 2. It provides guidelines for both preparing to write a comment, such as defining the problem, gathering arguments and considering alternative positions, as well as writing a comment, including stating the topic, giving an opinion, supporting it with detailed arguments, and drawing a conclusion. 3. The document also includes a checklist for reviewing a comment to ensure it is focused, clear, logically organized, convincing, and has a concluding summary rather than just a repetition.

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Writing a comment

In a comment you express your personal opinion on a certain situation, event,


person, behaviour, attitude, or a statement made by somebody else.

Before writing:

1. Define the problem/subject. What is your opinion?


2. Gather and select arguments, facts, examples etc. to support your
opinion. If you have to give your opinion on a subject that is dealt with
in a text you may find some ideas there as well.
3. Think about the opposite position and try to find arguments to reject it.
4. Put the points in a logical order. Group them according to their
relevance and importance.
5. Find a good conclusion.

While writing:

1. Begin your comment by saying what the problem/subject is.


2. Give your own opinion in a general way.
3. Support your opinion by presenting your arguments in detail.
There are two possible kinds of structure:
- one argument follows the other,
the strongest argument is put forward at the end
- an argument for a view is immediately followed by the argument
against it
4. Draw a conclusion in which you sum up the problem and your own
Opinion.

After writing:

Checklist:
• Have you concentrated on your topic?
• Have you made your position clear enough?
• Have you linked up the different aspects in a logical way?
• Are your arguments convincing?
• Can you add some more facts to support your opinion?
• Does your conclusion sum up your position without being just a repetition
of what you have already said.
Writing a comment
1. Begin your comment by saying what the problem/subject
is.
The problem/topic I am going to deal with is ...
I am going to deal with ...
As we have seen in ...
As we know from ...
The author of ... holds the view that ...
It is often/generally believed/ accepted/ taken for granted that ...

2. Give your own opinion in a general way.


In my opinion/view ...
To my mind ...
I think ...
It seems to me, however, ...
I would say ...
As far as I can see ...

3. Support your opinion by presenting your arguments in


detail.
When we have a closer look at ...
With regard to ...
In connection with ...
On the one hand/on the other hand ...
The first point I would like to mention is ...
I would like to give some examples ...
Let me give an example.
In addition ...
Furthermore ...
One reason is that ...
Another argument is that ...
While ...
Whereas ...

4. Draw a conclusion in which you sum up the problem and


your own opinion.
As a result ...
To sum up my arguments ...
Therefore I think/don't think/cannot agree with/would say/would
support the view that ...
In short ...
I conclude/have come to the conclusion ...
Connecting sentences
Sentence connectives improve the style of a text and make it easier to
read.
This is a list of sentence connectives

When you want to you can use …


…
add ideas moreover, furthermore, and, similarly, in addition
to this, too, also, besides, another point is that, …
give reasons therefore, that is why, so, …
show similarity equally, likewise, in the same way, …
refer to something with regard to, referring to, with reference to, as
to, ...
give examples namely, for example (e.g.), for instance, that is
(i.e.), that is to say, …
say something in that means, in other words, that is to say, or rather,
other words to put it another way, …
show order first, firstly, to start with, secondly, next, finally,
to begin with, in conclusion, above all, …
draw conclusions hence, consequently, as a result, therefore, it
follows that, thus, for this reason, …
say something On the one hand … but on the other hand, but,
against a statement however, on the contrary, in spite of the fact,
nevertheless, …
express condition if, unless, suppose that, provided that, on the
condition that, …
sum up To sum up, in short, all in all …

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