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Hello.

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This is week number four.

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Your midterm exam is coming very soon,
so I would like to explain a few 

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things regarding what I'm going
to give you as a midterm, regarding

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your assessment.

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So I've decided to give you a
commentary.

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You will have to comment on a document.

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And what I would like you to do,
I would like you to put into practice

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all what you've seen in this lesson,
which means not only in this lesson,

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but in the previous lessons,
which means that I would like you

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to analyse a document.

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Of course, you will have to start
with an introduction and you will

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have to focus on some key elements
and try to read between the lines.

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Last time when we studied the text,
I had to explain a few things like

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the Watergate scandal,
like Bernstein, like Nixon,

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President Nixon and so on.

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So this is what should appear in
your commentary.

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And of course, for the structure,
you will start with an introduction.

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And I would like to see very clear
paragraphs, very distinct paragraphs.

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Writing very distinct paragraphs
is very important.

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It enables me to see when you move
from one idea to another.

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Also, each paragraph should have
the same structure.

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It should start with a topic sentence,
supporting sentences and a closing

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sentence.

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So I'm going to try to explain
what a topic sentence is.

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A topic sentence is a statement.

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It is something that you say,
it is an information that you pass.

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The supporting sentence is just
here to support the statement,

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the topic sentence.

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And then you finish your paragraph
with a closing sentence,

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which is just a kind of conclusion
or an opening towards the next

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paragraph.

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This is the structure I would like
to see.

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So, which means I'm going to pay
attention to the structure,

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to the introduction and of course,
to what you are going to be saying.

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Okay, so make sure that all this
is very clear so that it's easier

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for me to assess your work.