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Choose a title from the list below, or select one from your own subject, then write a
generalisation and develop it in the same way.
(a) Does tourism always have a negative effect on the host country?
(b) Should governments use taxation to promote public health?
(c) Is it more important to protect forests or to grow food?
(d) Is it better for the state to spend money on primary or university education?
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Part 2:
Elements of Writing
Generalisation
Support
Development > Specific
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See
Unit 1.11
Introductions and Conclusions
1 Active and passive
The passive is used when the writer wants to focus on the result, not on the cause:
The college
was founded in 1925 by Walter Trimble. (passive)
Walter Trimble
founded the college in 1925. (active)
In
the first sentence, the emphasis is on the college, in the second on Trimble.
So the passive
is often used in written English when the cause (a person or thing) is less important or unknown.
Aluminium was first produced in the nineteenth century. (by someone)
The colony was abandoned in the 1630s. (due to something)
The cause of the action can be shown by adding ‘by . . .’:
The city was flooded by a severe hurricane.
The passive is also used in written work to provide a more impersonal style:
The findings were evaluated. (not ‘I evaluated the findings’)
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