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#1 (permalink) Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:23 am TOEFL essay: Teachers should be paid as least as much as lawyers, doctors... |
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Do you agree or disagree: Teachers should be paid as much as lawyers, doctors, and business leaders are paid.
Hello everybody, I am kindly asking anyone who can check my essay. Please...
In my country, there is much concern over the subject that teachers should got salary as least as some professional job, such as lawyers and doctors. Some people advocated that teacher is the fundamental of the country, while others insist that teacher have long vocation but others not. After considering in several aspects, I tend to agree that because teacher is a job which needed a long time for learning. In the following paragraphs, I would like to reason and provide evidence to support my view.
First of all, the reason why I have such a view is that all of those jobs need professional. That is to say, those careers all need long time for learning and face more pressure than other jobs. A particular example is I have a good teacher when I was undergraduate student, he work hard in my class and not only concerned exam grade also students life and health. I though he should be got more salary. Under this kind of circumstances, of course they needed more salary.
In the second place, education sometimes not got well consider. Teacher is a fundamental job of country, but people think is should be do this which take care all thing of students. To further substantiate the view, let us focus on another equally important example. Elementary school is the base education of the country. Parents always think teacher should be taking care their children not only study also behavior in the live. Teacher not only just a teacher, but also a psychologist or a trash can that accept pressure from the school, parents and co-works competition. There for, I think they hold pressure not least than other career, such as lawyers and doctors.
Last but not least, teacher need taught about ten thousand students during their teacher period of live. In other words, they teaching will affect ten thousand families. For example, an elementary teacher almost teaches fifty students in one class in my country. They need concern every child and spend more energy and spend more time on it. Thus, they worth got high pay likely doctors or lawyers.
To sum up, from what has been discussed above, we may draw the conclusion that country used little money now; means used a lot of money in the future. So, I agree teacher worth got more salary.
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#2 (permalink) Sun Dec 14, 2008 14:58 pm TOEFL essay: Teachers should be paid as least as much as lawyers, doctors... |
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Hi Raki,
1) The subject itself has mistakes in it, it should be: Do you agree or disagree: Teachers should be paid as much as lawyers, doctors, and business leaders are paid.
2) Do you compose the essay using MS word? It is good at catching the spelling errors and simple grammatical mistakes.I would recommend you to use such tool.
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#3 (permalink) Sun Dec 14, 2008 16:04 pm TOEFL essay: Teachers should be paid as least as much as lawyers, doctors... |
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Hi Gray, Thanks for your advice. Sorry about that. I have corrected spelling error and checked grammar already. I would be appreciative if you could point out another mistake. Please~ thanks again,
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#4 (permalink) Sun Dec 14, 2008 19:05 pm TOEFL essay: Teachers should be paid as least as much as lawyers, doctors... |
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Hi Raki,
I would need to go through the whole essay to understand the topic and your presentation and then I would be able to make some improvements in it. If it comes to essay, there are many things that matter apart from the spelling and grammatical mistakes: 1) how effectively you present the topic - the content 2) how do you organize it - its cohesiveness and structure
I would take a day or two to review it, meanwhile you can google some of the sentences, you have doubt about, to see if they are really used by writers around the world.
~Gray. _________________ First lesson - English, not english. I, not i. ~A student of English |
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#5 (permalink) Sun Dec 14, 2008 19:32 pm TOEFL essay: Teachers should be paid as least as much as lawyers, doctors... |
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Try not to wander in expression and try to be clear. Imagine that you are writing to a kid. Try to simplify things as much as possible.
Good luck.
| Raki wrote: |
Do you agree or disagree: Teachers should be paid as much as lawyers, doctors, and business leaders are paid.
Hello everybody, I am kindly asking anyone who can check my essay. Please...
In my country, there is much concern over the subject that teachers should get as much salaries as some other professional jobs, such as lawyers and doctors. Some people advocated that teachers are of fundamental importance to any country. Others insist that teachers have long vacations (vocation is an English word, too, but it means a different thing, look it up) than others. I agree that teachers should get higher salaries. In the following paragraphs, I will give reasons and provide evidence to support my view.
First of all, the reason why I have such a view is because teaching needs qualification. That is to say, teaching needs a long time of learning and a lot of torments to endure than in any other jobs. For example, I had a good teacher when I was undergraduate student, he worked hard in my class, and he did not care only about the grades, but also about students life and health.. Under this kind of circumstances, a teacher needs a higher salary.
( This paragraph is no quite clear. I cannot correct some sentences because they are not clear. I am going to underline the unclear sentences)
Second, education sometimes not got well consider. Teaching is one of the fundamental jobs in any country, but people think is should be do this which take care all thing of students. To further substantiate the view, let us focus on another equally important example. Elementary school is the basic education of the country. Parents always think teachers should not only take care of their children studies, but also their behavior in everyday life. They are not only just teachers, but also psychologists or a trash can that accept pressure from the school, parents and co-works competition. Therefore, I think they are under huge amount of pressure same as lawyers and doctors.
Last but not least, teachers instill knowledge into ten thousand students during their teaching career. In other words, their teaching will affect ten thousand families. For example, elementary teachers almost teach fifty students in one class in my country. They take care of every child and spend more energy and spend more time. Thus, they worth a high salary like doctors or lawyers.
It is better if you change this conclusion because it is unclear. Try to write another one.
To sum up, from what has been discussed above, we may draw the conclusion that country used little money now; means used a lot of money in the future. So, I agree teacher worth got more salary. |
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#6 (permalink) Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:34 am TOEFL essay: Teachers should be paid as least as much as lawyers, doctors... |
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Thanks Gray, I would remember those tips, and I would practice more and more.
| Gray wrote: |
Hi Raki,
I would need to go through the whole essay to understand the topic and your presentation and then I would be able to make some improvements in it. If it comes to essay, there are many things that matter apart from the spelling and grammatical mistakes: 1) how effectively you present the topic - the content 2) how do you organize it - its cohesiveness and structure
I would take a day or two to review it, meanwhile you can google some of the sentences, you have doubt about, to see if they are really used by writers around the world.
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Raki New Member
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#7 (permalink) Mon Dec 15, 2008 3:18 am TOEFL essay: Teachers should be paid as least as much as lawyers, doctors... |
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Hi Happytofita, Thank you veeeeeeery much for checking and modify my essay. It is very useful for me, because words are very precisely in you used. Thanks a million.
| Happytofita wrote: |
Try not to wander in expression and try to be clear. Imagine that you are writing to a kid. Try to simplify things as much as possible.
Good luck.
| Raki wrote: |
Do you agree or disagree: Teachers should be paid as much as lawyers, doctors, and business leaders are paid.
Hello everybody, I am kindly asking anyone who can check my essay. Please...
In my country, there is much concern over the subject that teachers should get as much salaries as some other professional jobs, such as lawyers and doctors. Some people advocated that teachers are of fundamental importance to any country. Others insist that teachers have long vacations (vocation is an English word, too, but it means a different thing, look it up) than others. I agree that teachers should get higher salaries. In the following paragraphs, I will give reasons and provide evidence to support my view.
First of all, the reason why I have such a view is because teaching needs qualification. That is to say, teaching needs a long time of learning and a lot of torments to endure than in any other jobs. For example, I had a good teacher when I was undergraduate student, he worked hard in my class, and he did not care only about the grades, but also about students life and health.. Under this kind of circumstances, a teacher needs a higher salary.
( This paragraph is no quite clear. I cannot correct some sentences because they are not clear. I am going to underline the unclear sentences)
Second, education sometimes not got well consider. Teaching is one of the fundamental jobs in any country, but people think is should be do this which take care all thing of students. To further substantiate the view, let us focus on another equally important example. Elementary school is the basic education of the country. Parents always think teachers should not only take care of their children studies, but also their behavior in everyday life. They are not only just teachers, but also psychologists or a trash can that accept pressure from the school, parents and co-works competition. Therefore, I think they are under huge amount of pressure same as lawyers and doctors.
Last but not least, teachers instill knowledge into ten thousand students during their teaching career. In other words, their teaching will affect ten thousand families. For example, elementary teachers almost teach fifty students in one class in my country. They take care of every child and spend more energy and spend more time. Thus, they worth a high salary like doctors or lawyers.
It is better if you change this conclusion because it is unclear. Try to write another one.
To sum up, from what has been discussed above, we may draw the conclusion that country used little money now; means used a lot of money in the future. So, I agree teacher worth got more salary. |
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Raki New Member
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#8 (permalink) Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:52 am TOEFL essay: Teachers should be paid as least as much as lawyers, doctors... |
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Hi Raki,
Few more corrections I can see here:
1) Some people advocate (not advocated) that teachers are of fundamental importance to any country.
2) Sentences such as this - "In the following paragraphs, I will give reasons and provide evidence to support my view.", should not be part of the essay as your objective itself is to write on the given topic. It adds nothing to the essay.
3) I am trying to rephrase the second paragraph: Not all aspects of teacher's responsibilities are considered while paying him. Teaching is one of the fundamental jobs where we expect teacher to not only take care of child's studies but also his or her overall social and mental growth. Hence the teacher has to play the role of psychologist as well and he is under huge amount of pressure to perform well.
4) Well, I like the forth paragraph you wrote: (Last but not least, teachers instill knowledge into...) It is really impressive.
5) I am trying to conclude the essay: To conclude, the salary of teachers should reflect the importance of imbibing the human values in the generations to come. And it should not go understated.
~Gray. _________________ First lesson - English, not english. I, not i. ~A student of English |
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