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Towards academic reading

This exercise focuses on recognizing clues that help you identify the author's attitude towards something. What the author really thinks about something is not always obvious from the text. Sometimes you have to "read between the lines" and use clues in the text to work out the author's position.

In the last sentence of the paragraph below, the writer tells us what he thinks about internet sites that deal with conflict resolution. But if you read the paragraph carefully, before you get to the last sentence you will find some clues that tell you what the writer really thinks about these internet sites.

Read the paragraph below.

Internet Sites on Conflict Resolution

 

If you search for information on conflict resolution, you will soon find websites that offer 'advice' on how to resolve conflicts. Some sites focus on what they describe as strategies for resolving conflicts, for example, how to listen more carefully to what others are saying. Other sites give you tools for identifying methods of conflict resolution, such as the Thomas-Kilmann questionnaire. Although some sites provide valuable advice, you may have to search through a lot of useless information in order to find research-based strategies and techniques related to effective resolution of conflicts.

Which answers below are clues that tell you the author has a negative attitude to many websites that deal with conflict resolution? Choose 2 correct answers.

using the words "what they describe as strategies"

the title of the paragraph

putting the word 'advice' into quotation marks