300-word essay.

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Example: If you could study a subject that you have never had the opportunity to study, what would you choose? Explain your choice, using specific reasons and examples.

1 minute preparation= use the magic pyramid

Main Idea= ASTROLOGY

Supporting ideas= have many doubts/ just one point of view.

(TS) If I could study a subject I had never had the chance to, I would choose astrology, for the following reasons. For openers, (st1) I have many doubts regarding this subject, which the study of this matter would help clarify. Apart of this reason, (st2) I have got just one point of view, which makes my opinions somehow biased or poor. To sum up, all these reasons explain why I should learn more about this area, so to obtain a better understanding of my peers. Let me start describing the questionings I have still got and their implicancies.

Most of the doubts that I have are related to inaccurate information which need urgent explanation. First of all, for understanding this information, a book is not enough because is a very subjective area. For instance, if you want to know the relationship between two star signs, you must analyze them and discuss it with an expert in the field, such as an astrologist. For the reason

previously exposed, this argumentation accounts for my will to study and get training from experts in this area. After this, I will explain the second reason that motivates me for studying astrology.

Conclusive sentence

Transitional sentence.