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Which answer choices are NOT reasons to start an essay or speech with a thesis statement? (Select all correct answers.)
- It lets your audience know what your main idea and supporting details are.
- It helps guide you through the writing of a report’s or speech’s rough draft.
- It summarizes your most important sources before providing evidence.
- It provides a list of sources that readers can consult if they want to know more.
A thesis statement is sometimes called a claim statement.
A thesis statement is sometimes called a claim statement.
A thesis statement is sometimes called a claim statement.
A thesis statement is sometimes called a claim statement.
Which sentence below supports this main idea? Mushrooms are much weirder and more wonderful than most people imagine.
- Unlike other foods we eat, mushrooms do not belong to either the plant kingdom or the animal kingdom.
- Many people enjoy eating mushrooms, which are a good source of a variety of vitamins and minerals.
- Like a few other crops, mushrooms can be harvested from the wild or grown commercially in huge growing sheds.
- People throughout the world have consumed a variety of mushrooms since before written history.
Support for main ideas should include reasons why the main idea is true.
Support for main ideas should include reasons why the main idea is true.
Support for main ideas should include reasons why the main idea is true.
Support for main ideas should include reasons why the main idea is true.
If you read an article explaining that mushrooms are good sources of vitamins and minerals and that they have been used in traditional cultures to maintain health and treat illness, what is one conclusion you might draw?
- Eating mushrooms will prevent disease and prolong life.
- The vitamins and minerals in mushrooms are what prevent disease and prolong life.
- People who want to consume a healthy diet should make mushrooms a part of their meals.
- More money should be spent to investigate medical uses of mushrooms.
Conclusions are based on facts.
Conclusions are based on facts.
Conclusions are based on facts.
Conclusions are based on facts.
What is the BEST way to make connections among the ideas in your research documents?
- Take notes of your sources and then look for similarities and differences among ideas.
- Summarize all your research documents first and then find the most important ideas in each one.
- Create a thesis statement and then summarize your sources to support this statement.
- List everything you learned about the topic and then choose the top three ideas that interest you the most.
Often you will find different views and interpretations of similar facts.
Often you will find different views and interpretations of similar facts.
Often you will find different views and interpretations of similar facts.
Often you will find different views and interpretations of similar facts.
Read the excerpt below from the article “Mushrooms—Biologically Distinct and Nutritionally Unique.” As you read, think about how this information can best be summarized.
Mushroom farms recycle byproducts from other agricultural sectors—crushed corn cobs, cottonseed hulls, soybean hulls, peanut hulls, and cocoa shells—providing a useful solution for byproducts that previously posed waste management challenges for other agricultural operations. The substrate material (on which mushrooms are grown) is recycled as a soil amendment.
- Mushrooms can be grown on crushed corn cobs, cottonseed hulls, soybean hulls, and other agricultural byproducts.
- Commercial mushrooms are sustainable; the crop is grown on the recycled byproducts of other kinds of agriculture that is later recycled to enrich soil.
- Agricultural byproducts such as corn cobs, cottonseed hulls, and soybean hulls form the substrate on which mushrooms are grown.
- Mushroom farms are “providing a useful solution for byproducts that previously posed waste management challenges for other agricultural operations.”
Summaries should restate the most important points of an article using different words.
Summaries should restate the most important points of an article using different words.
Summaries should restate the most important points of an article using different words.
Summaries should restate the most important points of an article using different words.
Once you have drawn conclusions about your sources, what is the next thing you should do in the research process?
- Take notes on your sources.
- Write your rough draft.
- Create a thesis statement.
- Make connections between ideas.
Once you know what to conclude about your research, then you can create a thesis statement.
Once you know what to conclude about your research, then you can create a thesis statement.
Once you know what to conclude about your research, then you can create a thesis statement.
Once you know what to conclude about your research, then you can create a thesis statement.
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