ENG 103 Practice work: Transitions and Summary Writing

Practice work: Transitions and Summary Writing Exercise 1: Choose the most appropriate transitions from the options given below. (10 points) Exercise 2: Write a summary of the article ‘Unmasking Skin’. It should be between 150-180 words in length. (10 points) Unmasking Skin (1)1. If/When/During you took off your skin and laid it flat, it would cover an area of about twentyone square feet, making it by far the body's largest organ. Draped in place over our bodies, skin forms the barrier between what's inside us and what's outside. It protects us from a multitude of external forces. It serves as an avenue to our most intimate physical and psychological selves. (2)This impervious yet permeable barrier, less than a millimetre thick in places, is composed of three layers. The outermost layer is the bloodless epidermis. The dermis includes collagen, elastin, and nerve endings. The innermost layer, subcutaneous fat, contains tissue that acts as an energy source, cushion and insulator for the body. (3)From these familiar characteristics of skin emerge the profound mysteries of touch, arguably our most essential source of sensory stimulation. We can live without seeing or hearing – in fact, without any of our other senses. 2. Also/But/In conclusion, babies born without effective nerve connections between skin and brain can fail to thrive and may even die. (4)Laboratory experiments decades ago, now considered unethical and inhumane, kept baby monkeys from being touched by their mothers. It made no difference that the babies could see, hear and smell their mothers; without touching, the babies bec