Answer:
a) Potential Sources of confounding:
1) Pancreatic cancer patients were being compared with persons hospitalized for cancerous diseases. Coffee may likely aggravate the pains of pancreatic cancer patients unlike other cancer patients because the latter's cancer diseases were not digestive.
2) Unintended bias was introduced by investigators in questioning patients. The investigators asked questions on coffee drinking habits of those already hospitalized. This biased the drinking of coffee as a predisposing factor.
3) There could be differences among men and women because of other habits. While drinking more coffee predisposed women to cancer, according to the confounding statements, drinking even more did not have much difference in men.
Explanation:
"CRITICS SAY COFFEE STUDY WAS FLAWED" was an article in New York Times written by Harold M. Schmeck Jr. on June 30, 1981. It attempted to critique the study of drinking coffee and its disposal to cause cancer to the drinkers.
In this article, he introduced the views of critics of the Coffee Study which was earlier published in the New England Journal of Medicine and the accompanying refutal by the researchers.
Cheating and talking when you’re not supposed to should be discouraged
Using your school resources and asking for help should be promoted
Answer:
a. Adult students are frequently motivated to return to school... (Alex, Marks, & Jones, 2005).
Explanation:
It is important to consider that when information is paraphrased and you need to cite it, you have to include both the author/authors and the date such as in the example above. And although it is not a requirement, it is better to also include the number of the page from which the information was taken.
This reminds me of the squiggles and drawings and wind
The first excerpt is satire because satire is the use of humor, irony, or exaggeration.
The second excerpt is repetition. The phrase, "Now is the time..." is being repeated.
The third excerpt is rhetorical questions. Throughout the excerpt, there are questions being asked which the readers aren't supposed to be answered. Instead, the questions are there to make a point.
