CBEST WRITING SECTION CERTIFIED
STUDY DOSSIER 2026 VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
PACK
● Organization Structure: when to organize the order from most to least
important or visversa. Answer: If it is an argument essay, organize from
least to most important. This way, the author does not have to show his
hand so soon.
If it is an informative essay, organize from most to least important.
Transition words, phrases:
First and foremost
In addition
Also
Most Importantly
● What is organization structure? What are they?. Answer: It is like an
architect arrange rooms in the floor plan. Organization structure
includes: Chronological order
Order of importance
Compare and contrast
Cause and effect.
,● How to tell Facts versus opinion?. Answer: Facts is known. It is
proven.
Opinion can be debated.
http://aeo.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/Files/CriticalThinking/fact%20or%20opinion.p
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● first person point of view. Answer: Told from the viewpoint of one of
the characters using the pronouns "I" and We", "me and us", "mine and
ours".
Depending on the context, it creates intimacy with the reader. In other
context, it can be subjective, formal or impersonal.
E.g. Of intimacy: We congratulate the birth of your child.
E.g. Of formal: the company congratulates the birth of your child.
E.g. Of subjective: I think the me office policy is a failure.
● second person point of view. Answer: It addresses the reader as "you".
Commonly used in instruction passage. Or, when the writer wants to be
convincing by putting:
You the reader into the action of the paragraph
You make the readers pay more attention
You make the readers imagine themselves in that situation
The readers, in turn, feels less formal, the writer speaker personally to
the reader, address the reader as individual.
, ● Third person point of view. Answer: someone on the outside is
looking in and telling the story as he/she see it unfold.
Use the word "they" or "she" or noun.
E.g. Students in our financial planning class will need these items.
Writing in this point of view is formal, and distance.
● Make Observation: Diction 辭. Answer: Make observation means:
- identify the point of view
- work choices (diction). Pay attention to the connotation, i.e. the
implied meaning that developed an emotion, or social register, or
suggestion of degree.
- attend to those words and phrases are arranged in the sentences and
paragraph
- repeated words and patterns
- important details about people and places
● What is style? And why it is important?. Answer: Style in writing
generally referred to:
- Sentence structure (simple or complex)
- Degree of detail and description
- Degree of formality
STUDY DOSSIER 2026 VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
PACK
● Organization Structure: when to organize the order from most to least
important or visversa. Answer: If it is an argument essay, organize from
least to most important. This way, the author does not have to show his
hand so soon.
If it is an informative essay, organize from most to least important.
Transition words, phrases:
First and foremost
In addition
Also
Most Importantly
● What is organization structure? What are they?. Answer: It is like an
architect arrange rooms in the floor plan. Organization structure
includes: Chronological order
Order of importance
Compare and contrast
Cause and effect.
,● How to tell Facts versus opinion?. Answer: Facts is known. It is
proven.
Opinion can be debated.
http://aeo.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/Files/CriticalThinking/fact%20or%20opinion.p
df
● first person point of view. Answer: Told from the viewpoint of one of
the characters using the pronouns "I" and We", "me and us", "mine and
ours".
Depending on the context, it creates intimacy with the reader. In other
context, it can be subjective, formal or impersonal.
E.g. Of intimacy: We congratulate the birth of your child.
E.g. Of formal: the company congratulates the birth of your child.
E.g. Of subjective: I think the me office policy is a failure.
● second person point of view. Answer: It addresses the reader as "you".
Commonly used in instruction passage. Or, when the writer wants to be
convincing by putting:
You the reader into the action of the paragraph
You make the readers pay more attention
You make the readers imagine themselves in that situation
The readers, in turn, feels less formal, the writer speaker personally to
the reader, address the reader as individual.
, ● Third person point of view. Answer: someone on the outside is
looking in and telling the story as he/she see it unfold.
Use the word "they" or "she" or noun.
E.g. Students in our financial planning class will need these items.
Writing in this point of view is formal, and distance.
● Make Observation: Diction 辭. Answer: Make observation means:
- identify the point of view
- work choices (diction). Pay attention to the connotation, i.e. the
implied meaning that developed an emotion, or social register, or
suggestion of degree.
- attend to those words and phrases are arranged in the sentences and
paragraph
- repeated words and patterns
- important details about people and places
● What is style? And why it is important?. Answer: Style in writing
generally referred to:
- Sentence structure (simple or complex)
- Degree of detail and description
- Degree of formality
