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Organization and Ideas and Content

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13 questions

Organize Topics from Broadest to Narrowest

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Organize Information by Main Idea

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Topic Sentences

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Thesis Statement

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Fact vs. Opinion

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Identify Stronger and Weaker Evidence to Support a Claim.

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Choosing the Best Evidence to Support a Claim

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Identify Evidence in a Text to Support a Claim

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Evaluate Counterclaims

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Choose the Analysis (Commentary) that Logically Connects the Evidence to the Claim

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Select the best evidence to support the statement "Citizens turned to the media to provide clarity and guidance in this uncertain time." There may be more than one correct choice.

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Silent Spring should be taught in all American high schools.

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Complete the text with the transition that best connects the claim to the evidence that supports it.

Paper bags are not necessarily more environmentally friendly than plastic bags.
__________, consider a UK Environment Agency study that found that a paper bag
has to be used three times before it can be said to have a lower impact on global warming than a single-use plastic bag.

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Order the topics from broadest to narrowest.

The twenty-year pause in the construction of the Washington Monument.

The design and construction of the Washington Monument.

The history of the Washington Monument.

Broader

Narrower

Narrowest

A person is writing a cover letter for a job. Read the piece of information in each row, then select the section where it fits best.

Character traits

Education

Career experience

I am a passionate educator and believe wholeheartedly in the importance and benefits of lifelong learning.

From 2005 to 2010, I managed the adult education program at the Hopwood Community Resource Center. My duties included training instructors, designing new courses, and responding to student complaints.

I received my B.A. in
English from Colorado
College in 1997 and graduated with honors.

Review the details below and then choose the best topic sentence to introduce a paragraph containing these details.
Vultures eat meat left over by large predators.
Elephants graze on grasses and break down plants, making the vegetation edible for smaller herbivores.
Lions feed on large herbivores like zebras and giraffes.

The warm climate of the African savanna makes food plentiful for all animals.

Animals in the African savanna depend on other animals in their ecosystem to survive.

The African savanna is home to scavengers, which survive off the remnants left by predators.

Which is a thesis statement?

Football players in the NFL are subject to an automatic fifteen-yard penalty if they engage in an excessive touchdown celebration.

I intend to show why a football player who celebrates after scoring a touchdown shouldn't be penalized by the NFL.

Scoring a touchdown is an exciting moment for a football player, and the player should not be penalized for celebrating.

Harry Houdini, born Erich Weisz, used "Houdini" as his stage name to pay homage to famous French magician Robert Houdin.

Harry Houdini was a mediocre magician, but many people considered him to be a skilled escape artist.

Tornadoes are scarier than other natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes, and volcanic eruptions.

Landslides are caused by many factors, including earthquakes, storms, and volcanic eruptions, and they can occur in any U.S. state.

The Phantom of the Opera has the perfect mix of singing, acting, and dancing.

The Phantom of the Opera became the longest running show in Broadway history on January 9, 2006.

Fact

Opinion

Consider this claim: A meal is more satisfying if someone else cooks it.
Which piece of evidence better supports this claim?

Evidence A: Research has demonstrated that food becomes less desirable to us the more time we spend preparing it and thinking about it. Therefore, the same food prepared by someone else is more appealing.

Evidence B: On a popular cooking show, one audience member pointed out how the same dish prepared by someone else seems to taste better than when he cooks it. Several other audience members clapped in agreement with his sentiment.

Review the claim and the two pieces of evidence:
A meal is more satisfying if someone else cooks it.

Why is Evidence A stronger than Evidence B?

Evidence B is anecdotal. It represents the experience of only a few people.

Evidence B does not directly support the claim. It does not show that a meal can be more satisfying if someone else cooks it.

Consider this claim: Online colleges prepare students for careers just as well as traditional brick-and-mortar schools do.
Which is the strongest evidence to support the claim?

"I've hired two people recently who received their college degrees through online programs, and the quality of their performance is as good as, if not better than, that of their peers," reported business owner Scott Casey.

Online college programs often provide career preparation services that are equivalent to those provided by traditional college programs, including interview preparation, job fairs, and even internship placement.

Many students choose to gain some credits through an online college program and then successfully transfer to a brick-and-mortar institution to complete a degree.

Keep calm, they said on television. Everything is under control.

I was stunned. Everyone was, I know that. It was hard to believe. The entire government, gone like that. How did they get in, how did it happen?

That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary.There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. 
People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.

Look out, said Moira to me, over the phone. Here it comes.

Here what comes? I said.

You wait, she said. They've been building up to this. It's you and me up against the wall, baby. She was quoting an expression of my mother's, but she wasn't intending to be funny.

From Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale. Copyright 1986 by O. W. Toad

Consider this claim: Companies around the world should invest more resources into making advancements in artificial intelligence.

Now consider how someone might argue against this. Which sentence presents the stronger and more reasonable counterclaim to the above claim?

Humans are a more worthwhile investment for resources since humans have a potential for creativity that machines don't have.

Advances in artificial intelligence will lead to robots replacing all human jobs, eventually leading to worldwide unemployment.

Read the claim and the supporting evidence.

Claim: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is an important book.
Evidence: Silent Spring helped inspire the environmental movement in America.

Why does the evidence support the claim? Choose the analysis that better explains the connection.

But the following paragraph into the correct order.

Few books are as well-known as Animal Farm. Published fifty years ago, in August 1945, as the Cold War was about to begin, the novel with its mixture of simple fairytale and historical allegory, still has the power to charm and provoke, even though that war now seems to be part of a previous age.

The novel, while frequently taught in schools to thirteen and fourteen year olds, is rarely to be found in sixth form or university syllabuses.

Like the author, the book occupies an ambiguous place in the literary world.

Yet its fame amongst the reading and, to an extent, the non-reading public is indisputable; the slogan, 'All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others', is one that has become part of the language.