Garage Math & ESL writing

GRE Organizational Tool

This is a tool I have developed to help organize the info you need to understand and answer the Argument Task on the GRE.  Here is the official website explanation of the task.


Remember that you have 30 minutes to read, organize, write, and make corrections, so spend only 5-7 minutes filling in the boxes.  

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Your final answer should be at least 350 words!

Claim/Argument	Counter-evidence
Evidence	What’s missing?

Alternative explanations:

Download a word doc of this form here.

After the Trip -- Lots of Writing Monday

We took a field trip on Friday and have a lot to do to catch up with our grammar lessons first. But before that, let's talk and write about where we went, what we saw and did, what surprised us, what amazed us, and of course the maddening heat.

After we process through all that within ourselves and within our group, it's time to write a thank you note or two. The first one is required, and that's the one for Richard, our tour guide from Whole Foods

. Listen here for some ideas on how we might do that.

Let's learn the form and format for thank you notes in general, and narrow it down to what elements we want for our class thank-you note.

I will also be thanking Tali, who woke up very early for a vacationing teenager, Pushed my chair around in 100 degree heat, was helpful in every way I asked, and was a pleasant traveling companion for all of us. Perhaps, you can each write a sentence or two to tag onto a bigger thank-you-card from me.

As you know, I am Ms. Electronic Gadget for nearly all of my communication, but for this task I use pretty stationery and nice pens.