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TOEFL Writing - Essential Tasks & Terminology

Key terms and task concepts for the new TOEFL Writing section, including Build a Sentence, Email writing, and Academic Discussion.

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Build a Sentence

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A TOEFL iBT Writing task that asks you to compose clear, grammatically correct sentences and develop ideas using cohesion and subordination. The TOEFL iBT Writing section includes Integrated Writing and Writing for an Academic Discussion; there is no separate "Build a Sentence" task.

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Intact Sentence

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In the Writing for an Academic Discussion task, the intact sentence is the initial prompt sentence provided by the professor that introduces the discussion topic. Test takers can respond to it, but they cannot edit or delete that sentence.

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Grammatical Sentence

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In Build a Sentence, this refers to the final output you must construct by rearranging words; it must be syntactically correct and logically fit the conversation flow.

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Sentence Structures

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The specific grammatical patterns and arrangements of subjects, verbs, and objects that the Build a Sentence task is designed to assess and measure.

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Write an Email

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A TOEFL Essentials writing task in which you write a short email for a specific purpose in about 5 minutes. This task is not part of the TOEFL iBT Writing section.

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