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Test What You Have Learned - Test 2 |
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Instructions: Read the following ACT Topics and choose one
to write an essay on. Then choose the format for your final draft.
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Your college wants to encourage more of its students to enter
the teaching profession. The Education Department has made two
proposals to help the college achieve this goal. One proposal
is to make it a graduation requirement for each student majoring
in liberal arts (English, history, psychology) to tutor students
in secondary school for one year. Under the supervision of a
college instructor, the college tutor would receive six college
credits at no cost. The other proposal is to offer liberal arts
majors a Master’s degree in Education at no cost if they
promise to teach at the local junior high or high school for
a minimum of three years. Write a letter to the president of
the college in which you argue for requiring all liberal arts
majors to tutor or for offering a free Master’s degree
in education to all liberal arts majors. Explain how your choice
will encourage more students to enter the teaching profession.
Begin your letter, "Dear College President:"
An undeveloped parcel of land has been donated to your community,
along with substantial funds to develop either a waterfront
park, which would be the only large recreational space in the
area, or a housing complex, which would provide homes for most
of the homeless families currently forced to live in temporary
shelters. Write a letter to the city council in which you argue
in favor of one of these projects. Explain how it would best
serve the needs of your community’s citizens.
Begin your letter, "Dear City Council:"
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Write the essay as a Word document and attach it to an email:
You can write the essay in Microsoft Word and then save it as
a document (e.g. voteressay.doc). You can print this document
or attach it to an email. Editing your work is much easier if
you prepare it this way.
To work on the
essay as a Word document, click here.
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Write the essay online and print it:
You can prepare the essay on our website and then print it.
After you print it, you may wish to take it to the
Center and show it to an instructor. Or you may wish to take
the printed copy directly to your professor.
To work on the
essay and immediately print it, click here.
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