English term
opportunities
This is related to Process Writing, the student completes a graphic organizer first and then writes a First version, the teacher corrects it with a code and the student writes a 2nd version improving her piece of writing.
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Responses
TRANSLATIONS THAT READ LIKE ORIGINALS
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish, Spanish to English, and 1 more.
Yes, it is correct.
You have two opportunities to improve your piece of writing; take advantage of them.
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Veronika McLaren
: Yes, definitely a semicolon to avoid a comma splice.
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Tina Vonhof (X)
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ulzii
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Thayenga
: :)
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Jack Doughty
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Egypt
translation, transcription, voice over,
Native in: Arabic (Variants: Egyptian, Standard-Arabian (MSA)) 
, English (Variants: US, British)
Works in: English to Arabic, Arabic to English
It's okay. Just omit "your piece of". Only write: to improve your writing (or) your style owriting
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George Rabel
: Of course. I missed the "piece" part.
14 mins
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Yvonne Gallagher
: It is a "piece of writing" the students are doing...//Agree with Jack. Of course you can improve a piece of writing...
2 hrs
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Jack Doughty
: Agree with Gallagy// You can improve a piece of writing. Style is only one aspect. If you improve the spelling, the punctuation, the formatting, you improve that piece of writing. Whether you are improving your style cannot be judged from just one piece.
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You can't improve a piece of writing. You rather improve your style of writing such a piece
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Canada
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Native in: French
Works in: French to English, English to French, French, and 1 more.
No. It's not OK.
Not knowing this, I would write, 'You have two opportunities to improve your writing. Take advantage of them." The puntuation is important.
¡Buena suerte, Señora Armando!
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punCtuation!
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David Moore (X)
: Please justify your negation. Others also think it is correct.//Clearly you're not sure yourself that it is in fact incorrect, as you effectively ask for context. AND... please don't get personal...
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Vielen dank für ihre negation! Haben sie meine kommentare lesen? Es ist mir egal, wenn andere denken, es ist richtig! Warum hast du nicht mit den anderen zu? Haben sie nicht nichts besseres zu tun?
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Ireland
right word, right place. everytime
Native in: English (Variants: US, Canadian, Irish, UK) 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
chances/rewrite
but I'd use "chances" here in this context where you want to emphasise the students are doing an exercise; a piece of writing
and rewrite a bit
"You have two chances(/opportunities) to improve your piece of writing SO make good use of them."
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"you have the opportunity to improve upon your piece of writing in your second version"
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"try to improve upon your first version of the piece (of writing) the second time around."
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and of course "piece of writing" is fine
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/thesaurus-category/britis...
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David Moore (X)
: This rather miises the point of the question IMHO, and I think were better posted as a discussion entry...
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"opportunity" is the wrong register here imho and "so" is better than a semicolon.//The point of the question "is it OK?" , Well, no, not quite imho...
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