THE INDEPENDENT WRITING TASK 126LESSON 11
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Student:
I, I’m interested in writing about earthquakes . . .
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Professor:
Hmm. Earthquakes . . . well, I don’t know, Brenda
. . . that sounds like much too broad a topic for a short
research paper.
Student:
Oh, well, I’m planning to choose . . . I plan to get
more specific than that. I want to write about using ani-
[CD 1 Track 1]mals to predict earthquakes.
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Professor:
Really? Well, once scientists wondered if maybe
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. . . if perhaps there was some connection between strange
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behavior in animals and earthquakes . . . and that maybe
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animals . . . that you could use them to predict earth-
quakes. But there have been a lot of studies on this subject,
[CD 1 Track 2]you know, and so far, none of them have shown anything
promising . . .
Student:
But I thought there was this . . . I saw this show on