THINKING AS A HOBBY by WILLIAM GOLDING

Classifying Thinkers (A summary of the previous text)
Answer the Questions:

1. Circle the thesis statement. How does Golding classify people?

2. Underline the topic sentence of each body paragraph.

3. How does the author describe 90 percents of the population? The remaining 9 percent? The final 1 percent?

4. Underline the examples used in the third body paragraph to describe "Grade-one thinkers."

5. What is the writer's opinion of Golding's essay? In which paragraph do you find this opinion?

6. What support (facts, examples) are used in the conclusion to argue the writer's point of view?


Cohen F Robert and Miller Judy "Reason to write -Strategies for success in academic writing"
Oxford University Press

Structured writing focus..

TASK: Write a 5 paragraph essay describing the best time or the worst time(past,present,or future)to be alive and why.