- Please read each the following sentences carefully and decide whether it is effective.
- If it is not, please rewrite it to make it better.
- (1) Our fifth floor patient, in room 6, is a mentally ill patient.
- (2) The best teachers help each student to become a better student both academically and emotionally.
- (3) Black slaves were called or stereotyped as lazy even though they were the main labor force of the South.
- (4) In my opinion, our current policy in Central America is misguided on several counts.
- (5) The secretary is responsible for monitoring and balancing the budget for travel, contract services, and
- personnel.
- (6) In order that I may increase my expertise in the area of delivery of services to clients, I feel that
- participation in this
- conference will be beneficial.
- (7) When our progenitors reach their silver haired and golden years, we frequently ensepulcher them in
- homes for
- senescent beings as if they were already among the deceased.
- (8) A scholarship athlete must be as concerned about his academic performance as he is about his athletic
- performance.
- (9) The apartment that we moved into it needed many repairs.
- On Logic
- Please decide whether each of the following sentences is logical; of it is not, correct it.
- (1) It was possible to feed a family of four on $70 a week before Governor Bebawi took office and drove up
- food prices.
- (2) This country has been run too long by old, out of touch, entrenched politicians protecting the special
- interests that got them elected.
- (3) Our war on drugs has not worked. Either we should legalize drugs or we should turn the drug war over to
- our armed forces and let them fight it.
- (4) If the president had learned the lesson of Vietnam, he would realize that sending U.S. troops into a
- foreign country can only end in disaster.
- (5) College professors tend to be sarcastic. Three of my five professors this semester make sarcastic
- remarks.
- On Thesis Statements
- Please decide whether each of these thesis statements is effective and identify the reason, i.e. too broad, too narrow, announcement, includes more than one idea.
- (1) Computers have changed our society.
- (2) I am going to write on my ideas concerning "F" grades.
- (3) The way our society treats elderly people is unbelievable.
- (4) The strangest teacher I ever had taught me a lesson I will never forget.
- (5) People who eat a lot of red meat are almost three times more likely to get colon cancer than people who
- eat mostly fish and chicken.
- (6) My last car was dependable, but many American cars are poorly made.
- (7) The first car that I owned was a Ford.
- (8) The subject of this essay is daily prayer in our public schools.
- (9) Soap operas show many stereotyped characters, although they also portray real problems in American
- life
- (10) Action must be taken against drugs.
On Effectiveness
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