TOEFL iBT | Writing | Independent Essay | Avoiding Conversational Tone

Send us a textVery grateful to bring you this podcast and today's conversation is maintaining the academic tone while trying to stay away from conversational tone. I had the privilege of being able to coach another teacher from Chile and I realized that in his essay, there was the tone of passage that would look like how he spoke, along with structural errors. I remember hearing this from a teacher years ago. He said, "your writing sounds like how you speak." I took it offensive, but it does ...