Paraphrasing & Summarising Part C

C1. believe, imply, claim, mention, suggest, propose

C2. Lester (1976) asserts that students are overusing quotations in their research papers. He believes that this is due to overuse direct quotations in taking notes. He suggests in order to minimize quote use, students should reduce the use of quotations when taking notes.

The first half of the year proves to be profitable. According to department reports, there is twenty percent cost cuts and sales have risen five percent. However, most department heads believe that profit will go down in the second half of the year. 

My English Language Learning Journey

My English learning journey was officially begun eleven years ago when I first came to Singapore. Back then I was totally new to this language, and my only knowledge about English was that those twenty-six alphabets 'happens to be the same' as the symbols used to write Chinese Hanyu Pinyin. I entered a neighborhood primary school, and as I was two years older than my fellow classmates I felt the lessons (mathematics, science, and especially chinese) were pretty easy. My main focus then was to improve on my English. I spent hours flipping through the dictionary and finding unknown English words for their Chinese translations. I was managed to survive through my primary school years, but soon found out that this method was no longer working in secondary school.

I began to try for other methods such as reading story books and watching the news, and constantly approach my English teacher. However, my English grade was still at the border line of failing. There were many encouraging stories on students who failed their English in year one but graduate with an A, but they failed to encourage me. I was totally disappointed, maybe that was the time when I lost my willingness to learn English language.

My new strategy was to improve on other subjects, such that when people saw my results slip they might view English just as a slight imperfection for my excellent performance. Throughout the rest years of my education, I managed to maintain other subjects at considerably high grades while keeping English at the border line (most of the time was just pure luck).

Last year when I entered university, the new environment brought me new perspectives and I started to realize for the past years I was lying to myself. It was the QET which spotted my lies, and I think it is the time to be honest.

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