All right.
Now we're going to look at agree or disagree to what extent this this now is much more academic.
So if you're a general student, this doesn't really apply to you as much.
It is possible for you to see a question to say as to what extent on the general exam, but most likely
on the general exam.
They're just going to ask you to agree or disagree, which is very easy to do.
You either agree and express why you agree or you disagree.
And you express while you disagree the language, to what extent is much more of an of a higher level
type of question?
Is much more of a higher level type of question.
And so I'm about to talk about that now.
Right.
These are some examples of that extent.
Question to the left.
Right.
This is these are some examples of this.
All right.
So some mistakes to avoid.
The number one failing to express the degree to which you the degree to which you agree or disagree.
Right.
That's that's probably the number one mistake I see is that when people have a question that says to
what extent do you agree or disagree?
They don't express they don't express the degree to which they the extent to which they agree or disagree.
Number two, turning it into a discuss both sides question.
I see this all the time.
This is one reason why you'll you'll hear me say in lectures and the lectures you'll hear me say the
easiest thing to do is just completely agree and explain why you completely agree or completely disagree
and explain why you completely disagree.
That's the that to me is the easiest thing to do to avoid making the mistake.
Because a lot of times when a student wants to partially agree.
When they want to partially agree, they end up turning it into a distrust both sides question.
And they they really mess up their task achievement score.
What I'm going to show you today is about how to structure it.
If you're going to partially agree and actually try to show you when you when you're partially agreeing.
It's all about having the language.
Having language in your essay that expresses that.
Another thing that people make a mistake on is they argue against themselves or they contradict themselves.
Now that happens, and when you do that, you're messing up task achievement.
Writing about the topic and not the question.
I talked about this earlier.
Right.
That's why earlier I went over question analysis, because sometimes people make the mistake of writing
an essay about the about the the overall topic.
And not not restricting the topic to not seeing the restricting words that restrict the topic.
You have to you have to write up you have to write about the specific question, not the general topic
that I see that problem a lot.
And lastly, writing about the views of other people and not your own.
Write this as to what extent do you agree or disagree?
Is not saying some people think.
Other people think.
Some people believe.
Other people believe.
That's not that's not the question.
You know, when you're when you're writing about the views of other people, that's much more like a
discuss both sides question.
It tells you to discuss both sides is that you're is much more objective in terms of how you're how
you're wording it.
So when you're doing it, to what extent do you agree or disagree?
QUESTION You're talking about a scale, right?
You're talking about a scale.
We have completely agree.
Somewhat agree.
Neither agree or disagree.
Honestly, I don't know how somebody does this.
Neither agree or disagree.
You don't have an opinion somewhat agree and completely disagree.
Right.
This one right here.
I've never seen someone write this.
I'm not even sure how you would do that under with the with the exam questions, the way they're worded.
But to neither agree or disagree, that means, like, I don't have an opinion.
And if you don't have an opinion.
If you don't have an opinion, I don't I don't know how you're going to write the essay.
I don't I don't know.
But that that is on the scale.
Right.
Neither agree or disagree.
Not sure how you write that.
Okay.
So scale of agreement is very, very important.
Like I said, most of the time, I tell somebody, pick one side.
Completely agree or completely disagree.
That's the easiest argument to make.
All right.
If you're going to partially agree, this is much more of how you're going to have to set it up.
No, neither agree or disagree does not mean both agree and disagree.
Those are two different things.
Right.
Because those are those are not the same thing.
When somebody when somebody somewhat agrees or somewhat disagrees, they're going to end up then talking
about agree and disagree.
They're going to express both.
Right.
So a partial agreement in this example, we're favoring agreement.
So we have a body paragraph discussing why a strongly agree and then we have a body paragraph talking
about why I partially disagree.
Right.
The strength, the strength of the essay is going to be on.
Strongly agree.
The lesser strength is going to be on partially agree.
There might be there might be one aspect.
There might be one or two aspects of the question that I have a disagreement with, and that's why I'm.
That's what you would express in this kind of in this kind of paragraph.
All right.
So let's have an example.
The government money should be invested in teaching science rather than other subjects so as to help
the country make progress and develop.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
The government money should be invested in teaching science rather than other subjects so as to help
the country make progress and develop.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
All right.
First we have the introduction.
Inevitably, each year, governments must determine how to use their education budgets, and policymakers
favor differently prioritized considerations.
This is an example of a collocation with an eye towards the nation's progress.
One such dividing proposal that's also a collocation would direct funds away from other school subjects
and towards science.
Accompanied by minor reservations related to one other course.
This paper strongly supports pushing funds towards science as the best option to tackle societal development
and progression.
So when you look at the thesis statement, you get the idea that I am not completely agreeing.
I'm not I'm not 100%.
Right.
Because it says accompanied by minor reservations related to one other course.
That means I don't I don't agree.
I don't want 100% agree that they should take funds from all other subjects and push them towards science.
I want to express that.
There's one subject that I that I think stands out from that.
So that's that's what the thesis statement is expressing that I'm going to partially I'm going I'm going
to strongly agree, but not 100% agree.
All right.
One other course.
Yeah, one other course is an example.
That's a combination of words put together.
Yes.
So first we go with the we talking about the paragraph that I strongly agree with.
I'm going to express my strong agreement first.
The country will advance by leaps and bounds right now by primarily by primarily funneling money towards
science over most other subject areas.
So when you read this first sentence, you think you see that I have pretty strong agreement with this.
I have strong agreement.
I'm not complete.
I have strong agreement principally, which is a better word than saying first, principally on a fundamental
level.
Science deserves monetary priority since it directly enhances the basic needs of society food, shelter,
health, security, water, employment and reproduction as proof.
Agricultural food science.
Increased crop yields to feed a global society which embodies a progression of humanity that learning
language or history would fail to achieve, notwithstanding basic needs.
Humanity, mentally and spiritually, needs entertainment and science more than in science, more than
sociology or humanities, accomplishes that goal.
If decision makers move to underwrite towards science, the future graduates will direct our Internet,
computers, music, movie and sports industries towards heightened progress outside of one subject officials
to channel money away from other subjects to science.
Right.
So this last this last sentence you see in red is a transition sentence is letting you know that there
is only one subject that I think they should not be taking money away from and giving it to science.
Right.
So now now in the next paragraph, I'm going to express that partial agreement.
That last sentence tells the reader that in this next paragraph, I'm going to express my partial agreement
that one subject should be one subject is outside of taking money away.
Right in this one, you see much more phrasal verbs in idioms that you can use like leaps and bounds
with an eye towards.
You also see transition in language other than first, second, third, principally as proof, which
is example notwithstanding, these are different types of transition.
Whereas here I'm using a conditional sentence.
Right.
So we're talking about range.
Right range.
The language you see in peach again is language that I'm trying to show you some examples of range budgets.
Funds funneling.
Money directing, funds underwriting.
Hide and progress channel money.
Right.
These are we're looking at different ways of saying the same thing.
Now, in this next paragraph, we get the disagreement, we get the partial disagreement.
Now, this essay slightly disagrees with funding science instead of philosophy, since proportionately
since it proportionately contributes to civilization's positive transformative transformation.
So you get from this paragraph that the writer is telling you, Well, you could take money from all
these other subjects, but not philosophy, because philosophy.
Philosophy.
Contributes just as much to civilization's growth and development as science does.
Notably Philosophy provides scientists with a needed morality, ethics, conceptual clarity and independence
to safely impart their innovations to the public.
The case of social media highlights this salient point since the absence of conceptual clarity towards
mental health offers depraved ethical standards and decency.
If governmental money falls away from less critical topics but supports philosophy equal equally to
science, it would solve ethical and moral emptiness, which some perceive as a downfall to civilization's
forward movement.
In short, science needs philosophy.
By and large, education officials should say goodbye to supporting subjects that marginally improve
progress and development and redirect toward science.
However, philosophy must hold firm as the only accepted course to this controversial decision.
In the long run, the betterment of the country is at stake.
Right.
So, again, this is a this is a question that's addressing to what extent you agree.
Right.
When you when you when you look at the paragraphs, you clearly get the extent the extent to which the
person agrees.
Right.
They're telling you this is a point that I slightly disagree with this one point.
But I strongly agree.
I strongly agree with it.
But there's just one point of disagreement.
That's how you would properly write a partially agree.
Right.
And a direction of partial agreement.
All right.
So I hope that you learned a lot in terms of.
The rubric question analysis and also learned a lot about structuring an essay structuring and formatting
an essay.
There are different ways to structure or discuss both sides and advantage disadvantage with an opinion
or outlay and also putting together a to what extent question.
I hope by the end of this lecture you're very, very clear.
On some of the alternative methods to doing that.
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