Applied Synonyms

 By: TOEFL consultant

To make an essay better, applied synonyms, words with the same meaning as another, do have the different basic emotional connotation. For example, the adjective word “stingy” has the synonym with the adjective word "frugal.”
But, the two words have the different emotional meaning. If you call someone as a stingy person, it means that you insult him/her. In contrast, if you name somebody with a frugal man, it has more positive meaning. Similarly, a man wants to be diligent but not carefree, or to struggle but not effort. As a consequence, the choices in taking words do not depend on the power of meanings in a sentence because some so-called synonyms do not bring the same emotional positive or negative meaning at all.

Analyses:

Topic sentence:

Synonyms (subject)

Controlling idea:

The different basic emotional connotation (object)

Supporting sentence:

Examples

Concluding sentence:

As a consequence, the choices in taking words do not depend on the power of meanings in a sentence because some so-called synonyms do not bring the same emotional positive or negative meaning at all.

Unity:

Synonyms as one main idea

Coherence:

“For example,” “similarly,” and “as a consequence” as transition words

References

Oshima, Alice and Ann Hogue. 1999. Writing Academic English: Third Edition. Pearson Education: New York.