Checking Both Directions · 독자 제작 연습 지문
1A neighborhood center asked a group of students to prepare short English notices for a weekend event. Each notice had to preserve the original message while using a particular set of expressions. Mina checked her draft by reading each expression on the list and finding it in her sentence. This helped her discover that she had forgotten the object of one verb. After adding it in the correct place, she believed the notice was finished.
2Her partner Daniel began from the opposite direction. He pointed to every expression in the completed sentence and asked where it had come from. He found the word all, which Mina had added to make the sentence sound complete. The instructions did not permit additional words, and the original message concerned only registered participants. All was therefore not simply an unnecessary decoration: it could also broaden the group described by the notice.
3The pair next compared a second draft with its source. Every required word appeared exactly once, but the sentence made the volunteers the people receiving assistance rather than the people providing it. A word inventory could not identify that reversal by itself. The students had to examine who performed the action and who was affected by it.
4They decided to keep the checks separate. Reading from the list to the answer tested whether required material was missing. Reading from the answer back to its source tested whether unsupported material had been added. Finally, explaining the completed sentence in their own language tested the relationship it actually expressed. A correct draft needed to survive all three checks, not merely reach the expected total number of words.