This kind of bias is when headlines that provide a one-line summary of the report carry biased connotations.

Bias through selection or omission

This kind of bias is when numbers can often be inflated in a study to promote a particular agenda.

Bias through word choice and tone

Bias through phots, angles, and captions

Which of the following is not a step in the research process?

Evaluate sources for reliability

Cell phones should be allowed in schools because we need a way to communicate with the outside world. Most teachers argue that phones disrupt the classroom. But I think phones can be used in the classroom to learn. More information is available to us than ever before, and we should use it. If the student is writing this to be submitted to the school board, adding which of the following would be more effective so the piece of writing appeals to the intended audience?

Examples of how phones can be used effectively in the classroom.

Examples of different types of phones students use.

Prices of the different models of phones.

Types of information students can access on their phones.

Our new and improved solar panels have helped thousands of people go from owing thousands of dollars in electric bills to nearly owing zero dollars a month. Our solar panels are easy to install and maintain. We have a 100 percent money-back guarantee, so if you do not find our panels to be the very best, we will refund you immediately. Which of the following would help legitimize the argument that people would consider using solar panels rather than traditional power in their homes?

Specific examples and research to show how solar panels can lower your electric bill.

A testimonial from a customer that is happy with their solar panels.

Studies that show solar panels reduce carbon emissions.

Citing the number of people who are already using solar panels.

Most people agree that teachers are underpaid and overworked. Many teachers must work two jobs to live because the salaries provided to teachers are so low. This makes teachers exhausted and unable to give 100 percent to their jobs in education. No one can blame teachers for striking so they can get better pay, which is what they deserve. Which of the following would strengthen the student's argument?

Add a sentence that states the average teacher salary along with how much money it costs to live in the area.

Add a detail outlining a petition that was signed by residents in the community to give teachers more money.

Add a quote from a teacher in the community who details the demands of the job and how exhausting it is to be a teacher.

Add a description of a recent teacher strike that led tot he school board paying teachers more money.

A teacher wants to help students understand bias in media. After a whole-group session on what bias is and how it is used in media, she has students work in cooperative groups. Which of the following would be the best activity to have students work on their groups?

Have students read a preidentified group of articles, locate areas of biased and nonbiased information in the articles, and discuss them as a group.

Have students make a poster about the dangers of bias in the media and how it negatively affects readers.

Have students read a section in the textbook outlining bias in publications so they have a follow up to what was discussed in the whole-group session.

Have students write a group research paper about how bias has been detrimental to the country during elections.

Ms. Johnson is preparing a small presentation to help students use their active listening skills. Which of the following would not be a barrier to students' active listening during the presentation?

built in time for clarifying questions

A teacher in a 10th grade English class is working with students on logical fallacies. Which of the following statements should the teacher and students analyze when examining syllogisms?

All animals are living things. Elephants are animals. Therefore, elephants are living things.

She has the world at her fingertips.

He nailed himself to the cross when he confessed to the crime.

Pete produced purple petaled petunias.

Which of the following should students consider when preparing to write?

subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker, tone

impact, reasoning, grammar, spelling, morphology, length

medium, structure, word count, philosophy, opinion, information

assessment, rubric, grade, objective, interest, characters

Which of the following statements would help legitimize the claim that letting students go outside would help reduce misbehavior?

A recent study showed that students who received just 20 minutes per day out on the playground were less likely to misbehave than those who did not get to play all day.

So many researchers agree that playtime is essential for students to concentrate and behave in class.

Canceling recess is a recent policy, and it is having dire consequences for students and schools.

Parents all over the country are furious over the fact that recess has been reduced and sometimes canceled altogether in schools.

Which two of the following lines are generalizations?

Teachers are always complaining that students are misbehaving.

Everyone agrees this is a problem.

I don't know how people expect little kids to sit all day without a break to release energy.

Letting students go outside to play will help reduce this problem.

We need recess to concentrate on our academics.

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Which form of writing uses emotional writing to convince the reader to adopt the author's opinion?

Which POV is most effective for a student writing an academic essay?

Writers should always consider which two things before beginning a writing task?

Which type of graphic organizer helps students identify the main idea indicated in a circle in the middle of a map, with supporting details spindling off from the main idea?

Which type of transition lets the reader know there is a cause and effect happening in the writing?

Which stylistic choice can writers use to persuade an audience with language, employing specific sentence structure, sounds, and imagery to attain a desired response?

Helping students locate and examine this when collecting reference materials can help them decipher reliable information from unreliable information.

This kind of bias is when headlines that provide a one-line summary of the report carry biased connotations.

This kind of bias is when numbers can often be inflated in a study to promote a particular agenda.

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