Reading Quiz 10/25/24

Occasion

Exigence

Audience

Constraints

The Civil Rights Movement

December 7, 1941

A company CEO delivering a message to employees about upcoming layoffs.

Economic downturn

• Summarize and analyze.

• Show relationships and make connections.

• Make argumentative points with research.

All of the above

breaking something down and taking a close look at each of its parts while looking for themes, patterns, and assumptions

the combination of ideas to form a theory or system

the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing

All of the above

summary

evaluation

analysis

paraphrase

Judgment can prevent an exploratory, open-minded process of analysis from occurring.

A judgmental tone sounds more confident, and this will make your paper stronger.

Judgment is where you'll end up anyway, so you should just stick with the conclusions you've already reached.

Since your judgment is based on your own real personal experience, it must be valid and will seem that way to your reader.

• I know a lot of parents who are really struggling with the issue of childhood obesity. 

• The percentage of children in the United States who are obese increased from seven percent in 1980 to nearly 20 percent in 2008 (CDC, 2012). 

With the number of children with obesity on the rise in the U.S., parents need to be better educated about the causes of childhood obesity

• There are many solutions to the problem of childhood obesity.