Unveiling the Truth: Examining Essay-Writing Strategies

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  • Discover the secret behind essay-writing strategies that rely on a vocabulary of okay words.
  • Uncover the hypothesis of examiners scanning essays for specific keywords instead of reading the entire content.
  • Put essay-writing strategies to the test and explore the implications of relying on arbitrary word order.
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以下の英文を訳してください。

All they learned(he said) was a vocabulary of okay words for essay-writing, which they strung together in arbitary order, relying on the fact that an examiner pressed for time would not actually read what they had written but would scan down the pages looking for these words. He didn't mean to be taken very seriously but it struck me that we could test this hypothesis in practice.

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All they learned (he said) was a vocabulary of okay words for essay-writing, which they strung together in arbitrary order, relying on the fact that an examiner pressed for time would not actually read what they had written but would scan down the pages looking for these words. He didn't mean to be taken very seriously but it struck me that we could test this hypothesis in practice. 　* arbitary → arbitrary ですね。 　「（彼の言うところによると） エッセイを書くにあたって、彼らは当り障りのない語句を適当な順番に並べることを考えた。というのは、時間に追われている採点者はどんな内容が書かれているのかを読むのではなくて、語句を拾って上から下までざっと目を通すだけだからというのだ。まぁ、彼はそれを本気にしたわけではないが、私はこのことを実地に試してみようと思いついた」 　

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