1. Identify sources. Include the person's name, credentials and accomplishments.
2. Cite qualified authorities. The testimony should match the person's credentials.
3. Cite well-respected authorities. Endorsements by famous people grab attention.
4. Cite testimonies accurately. Avoid taking quotes out of context.
The author is trying to convey that in recent years, the
extinction rate for many animal species has significantly increased. He began
his point in the first sentence of the excerpt: “Species are disappearing at an
accelerating rate through human action, primarily habitat destruction but also
pollution and the introduction of exotic species into residual natural
environments.” Then, he further emphasizes his point in the sentence: “As the
last forests are felled in forest strongholds like the Philippines and Ecuador,
the decline of species will accelerate even more.” Which is immediately followed
by another sentence that supports his argument: “In the world as a whole,
extinction rates are already hundreds or thousands of times higher than before
the coming of man.
This excerpt comes from the poem “ <em><u>The Love Song of J. Alfred Pufrock</u></em>” written by <u>T.S. Elliot. </u>It relates of how an older lover contemplates the moves he has to make to his loved one.
Question: Select the two meanings of fix that are suggested by the use in the excerpt.
Answer:
A. to rig or unfairly influence an outcome
C. to preserve a specimen for study
Answer:
Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention".
Meanwhile, Yoyo was on her knees, weeping wildly, collecting all the little pieces of her speech, hoping that she could put it back together before the assembly tomorrow morning. But not even a sibyl could have made sense of those tiny scraps of paper. All hope was lost. "He broke it, he broke it," Yoyo moaned as she picked up a handful of pieces.
What conflict does Yoyo face in this excerpt?
Explanation:
