You're evaluating an informative article. What should you do after identifying the audience and purpose of the article? Describe the use of reasons and evidence to support the main idea.

Describe the use of text structures to develop the main idea.

Evaluate the effectiveness of the author's use of rhetoric.

Evaluate the effectiveness of the article for its intended audience.

Geoffrey is writing a paper investigating friendly-fire incidents in recent us military actions. which paragraph topic would be relevant to his paper and would therefore merit inclusion in his final draft? a) a paragraph criticizing us military actions in the viet nam war b) a paragraph discussing how friendly-fire incidents are investigated c) a paragraph describing what basic boot camp is like for a new army enlistee eliminate d) a paragraph discussing how hard an extended military service can be on a family

A. to transition the reader smoothly from one idea or moment intime to the nextob. to grab readers' attention and get them interested in the essay'smain topicc. to provide more supporting details about the essay's main ideasor topicod. to sum up the overall point of the essay and make a lastingimpression

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.