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Another fine SAT Writing video on the Job Outlook for Urban Planners. Get your thinking cap on for some paragraph analysis.
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All right t writing shmoop er's We've got another fine
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passage for you it's Fine This is awesome writing Yes
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it really is All right Title the job outlook for
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urban planners Well alright innovative professionals Yeah we could kind
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of skim this And why don't we You know we
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- 00:18
got a whole lot of underlying anything's here We're gonna
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go through try to figure out what this is about
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picking out a few key words and goes read the
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first sentence of each paragraph just we kind of get
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our geek dipped All right here we go Innovative fresh
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nell's with background that iconic quality signing an environmental design
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should consider a career in the growing fields of urban
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in regional planning rights is kind of a recruiting doc
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for urban planners All right herman in him who worked
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about short long from flames establish maintain communities is in
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a plant or may exam on a new school and
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totally you know socially urban planning's relatively new field Alright
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yada yada because cities are always changing Planning's relatively steady
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career path i'm sent change beauticians is demand and planer
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mill and times grow ten percent Yeah about his fast
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Average for all occupations are not very exciting And increase
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folks unstable environmentally conscious val minerals increased demand for them
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You storm water management when cities have funds for development
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projects planners in high demand and plans on face competition
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for jobs Okay well here we go first one short
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and long term plans Let's See where that's coming from
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and go back to the writing and find it well
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in the first paragraph here we go Innovative professional back
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from that kind of political science around hank urban and
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regional planners worked to develop short and long term plans
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to establish and maintain communities well there are two kinds
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of plans in this sentence Short term plans and long
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term plans when two words act together is a single
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adjectives such as short term plans or long term plans
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while they get a hyphen between them In this situation
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plans has only said wants to avoid repetition which is
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klein Short is still part of a two word noun
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phrase Therefore it deserves its own special hyphen making short
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dash and long dash term plans The right choice Well
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two words Adjectives need hyphen Cia like in a but
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if that's not reason enough consider this idea Without the
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two hyphens the plans could be term plans whatever that
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means Yeah then there would be two types of term
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plans short ones and long ones and that would make
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this sentence pretty wacky Dropping the hyphen after short or
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adding three hyphens would make the plans both short term
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and long term eliot once which seems kind of well
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impossible That's it The correct answer is c They're short
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dash and long dash term plans and well that's it 00:02:30.543 --> [endTime] All right we're done
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