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Sprint 5.7: Course Review — One Response, Read As A Stranger

Learner writes a full response and receives a report across all sixteen faults, framed as what the reader could and could not follow.

6 micro-lessons

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Four Questions You Now Ask

Topics, references, joins, progression — and the order to fix them in.

Topics and references

One topic per paragraph — can you write the map line without and?

Can every pointing word be answered in two words?

Those two questions catch half the sixteen faults between them.

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Write the Response

A full response, unchecked. You get a map back.

Write a full Task 2 response. Do not check it.

Prompt: some cities are removing through-traffic from residential streets. Others argue this simply moves the congestion elsewhere. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

Write a full response: introduction, two body paragraphs, conclusion.

Send it unchecked. You will get back a one-line map of each paragraph — and nothing else.

Keep it. You will revise it two blocks from now.

Your full response*

Unchecked, on purpose.

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Map and Check

Four minutes: the map, then the five checks.

Four minutes. This essay has the same shape as the one you just wrote. Map it first, then run the five checks. Intro: Removing traffic from residential streets is a controversial policy. This essay will discuss both views. P1: Residents of quieter streets report less noise and cleaner air. Moreover, children play outside more often. Furthermore, house prices in these streets have risen. P2: Critics say the traffic simply moves. The main roads around the zone carry more cars than before, and journey times on them have lengthened. This has been documented in three cities. P3: House prices in treated streets have risen sharply since the schemes began. Conclusion: In conclusion, removing traffic from residential streets is controversial.

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THE MAP. Line P1: Line P3: Comparing P1 and P3 — what does the map show?

CHECK 1 — pointing words. In P2, This has been documented — answer this in two words: Is it clear?

CHECK 2 — deletion test. In P1, delete Moreover and Furthermore. Anything lost?

CHECK 3 — first sentences only. Does P3's opening reach back to P2?

CHECK 4 — first and last. The intro says the policy is controversial. The conclusion says . Did the essay arrive?

CHECK 5 — adverb count. How many linking adverbs in P1?

TRIAGE. Fixing in order — topics, progression, references, linking words — what goes first?

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Resubmit

Your revised response, reported as what a reader could follow.

Send your revised response, with the original above it.

Send both versions of the response you wrote two blocks ago — the original, and the version you revised after mapping and checking it.

This is the only block in the course that looks at all sixteen faults at once.

The report will tell you what a reader could and could not follow — which is the one thing you cannot see for yourself, because you already know what you meant.

Original, then revised*

Both, labelled.

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The Two You Will Check For

Which two, and which fourteen do you accept the risk on?

Learners can ask follow-up questions and keep the thread going.

Of the sixteen faults, which two will you check for in the exam?

And which fourteen will you accept the risk on?

One sentence.

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