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Ratio of Asking Questions Versus Giving Answers 718 Views
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Description:
Asking questions can help spice up an essay. Just make sure you don't get too spicy and forget to answer those questions. You don't want to leave your readers wondering if you have any answers at all.
Transcript
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Thank you We sneak Ratio of asking questions versus giving
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answers allah shmoop sponsored by the marriage bureau it's always
- 00:11
a good idea to ask questions whether you're in class
- 00:14
at a job interview or ordering hot dogs at a
- 00:17
baseball game get your odds don't ask what's in him
Full Transcript
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Another good place to ask questions is in an essay
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you just have to be sure not to ask too
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many of them Well what's a good ratio of questions
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toe answers in an essay if you're asking question every
- 00:33
paragraph well yeah that's too many sorry you have to
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let your essay speak for itself sometimes like this to
- 00:41
be or not to be too many questions make you
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sound like you lack confidence Remember you're driving this essay
- 00:48
bus like a boss A bus boss if you will
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asking too many questions is like having your passengers drive
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the bus The more you give up control the more
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likely they are to run off the road It's something
- 01:00
not good but call your friendly geico agent If they
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do if you do decide to raise a question in
- 01:05
your introduction spend the majority if not all of your
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body paragraphs answering that Question that's the point of the
- 01:11
whole essay after all hasting is important too not that
- 01:16
kind of pacing meaning timing don't let too many questions
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slow your paper to a problem your body paragraph should
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be chock full of information human essay as it goes
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questions in that part of the essay or just speed
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bumps if you're writing an essay about driving a bus
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and you're continually asking questions like have you ever wondered
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what a bus driver does Or is it difficult to
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operate a vehicle that large No then you're answering them
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it's like saying you know after everything you say you
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know you know a good place for a question is
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near the end of your body or in your concluding
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paragraph to open up the essay tome or discussion Remember
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the majority of the essay should be answers in information
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especially in the body paragraphs and some questions shouldn't be
- 02:00
answered at all They're there to open up the topic
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for the readers so there's no hard and fast rule
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but one or two questions in a five paragraph essay
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is more than enough and just fine And if you
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do find yourself driving a bus Well don't you cry
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Don't have your license to drive a bus so just
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get off Get off there Go get someone else to 00:02:40.01 --> [endTime] drive it What are you doing
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