Drag the signal phrase verbs below into the appropriate blanks.
Drinking milk as an important health practice is not something that everyone accepts without question anymore. Substitute milks are very popular on the market for various health, environmental, and animal-related reasons, but for those who can and do want to drink dairy milk, the question arises as to whether they should just because they might like
it, or whether there is a health-related purpose as well. Milk producers support the idea that milk is an important component of daily health. The International Osteoporosis Foundation [IOF], in an ... article for iofbonehealth.org titled "Milk and Other Dairy Foods Are Good for Bone Health," -Press Space to opendisputesconcurs: "Evidence strongly supports the benefits of dairy products for bone and muscle health. Studies have shown that bone loss is reduced and there is an improvement in muscle
mass and strength with adequate dairy intake." In contrast, however, Emil Q. Javier, PhD, former president of the National Academy of Science and Technology [NAST] [Philippines], in an ... article for the Manila Bulletin titled "Whole Foods and Plant-Based Diets for Longer Healthier Lives [Part III]," -Press Space to opendisputesconcurs the claim of increased health through milk: "American women aged 50 and older who consume more cow's milk and dairy products per person than the rest of the
world have one of the highest rates of hip fractures. The only countries with higher hip fracture rates are Australia, New Zealand and those in Europe where they consume even more milk than the United States."
Source Citation: "Is Drinking Milk a Good Way to Build Strong Bones?" ProCon.org., 4 Oct. 2018, milk.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=000828. Accessed 14 Nov. 2018.
Consider the following passage from an article about teenagers and
anxiety:
Adolescence is the life stage when mental illnesses are most likely to emerge, with anxiety disorders being the most common. Recent estimates suggest that over 30 percent of teens have an anxiety disorder. That means about one of every three teenagers is struggling with anxiety that significantly interferes with their life and is unlikely to fade without treatment.Kayla is the anxious teen protagonist in the recent movie Eighth Grade. From the acne peeking out through her makeup to
the frequent "likes" that punctuate her speech, she seems to be a quintessentially awkward teen. Inside her mind, though, the realities of social anxiety meet the typical storm and stress of adolescence. Through its warm yet heart-wrenchingly truthful portrayal of an awkward and anxious teen, Eighth Grade provides a relatable character for identifying and understanding how teen anxiety can really look and feel.
Source Citation: Odriozola, Paola, and Dylan Gee. "Developing Teen Brains Are
Vulnerable to Anxiety—But Treatment Can Help." The Conversation, 2 Nov. 2018, //theconversation.com/developing-teen-brains-are-vulnerable-to-anxiety-but-treatment-can-help-105541. Accessed 15 Nov. 2018.
A writer wants to quote from the passage above, but he wants to make it more concise without losing the author's meaning. He believes that he can take out some sentences that provide supporting details but are not needed to convey the main point. Select the correct option for doing
so.
Consider the following passage from an article about hate speech in social media:
Shortly after the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, I noticed that the word 'Jews' was trending on Twitter. As a social media researcher and educator, I became concerned that the violence would spread online, as it has in the past.The alleged synagogue shooter's activity on the Gab social media site has drawn attention to that site's role as a hate-filled alternative to
more mainstream options like Facebook and Twitter. Those are among the social media platforms that have promised to fight hate speech and online abuse on their sites.However, as I explored online activity in the wake of the shooting, it quickly became clear to me that the problems are not just on sites like Gab. Rather, hate speech is still easy to find on mainstream social media sites, including Twitter. I also identified some additional steps the company could take.
Source Citation:
Grygiel, Jennifer. "Hate Speech is Still Easy to Find on Social Media." The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2018, //theconversation.com/hate-speech-is-still-easy-to-find-on-social-media-106020. Accessed 15 Nov. 2018.
Which of the paragraphs below appropriately incorporates this source material?
1. confirm, agree, concur, acknowledge
2. disagree, reject, argue, deny, dispute
3. observe, claim, respond, assert
Click or
tap on each signal phrase in the passage below. If there are no signal phrases, click or tap "No signal phrase."
In today's health care system, no one person—maybe not even you—knows exactly what drugs you're taking. What's more, no one health care provider knows how you, the patient, take your medications and at what doses. No single, up-to-date record consistently displays all of this important information. The lack of an accurate medication list, and the associated lack of centralized and
expert management of your full drug regimen, has serious consequences. A 2016 study at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine suggested that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Many of these deaths are directly related to errors associated with medications. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates one million visits to emergency rooms each year stem from adverse medication events. In addition, thousands of people are harmed by
suboptimal medication management, or because they don't take their medications as directed. And millions of health care dollars are wasted each year in the form of duplicated or unneeded drugs and medication-related hospital readmissions.
Source Citation: Guglielmo, B. Joseph. "How Pharmacists Can Help Solve Medication Errors." The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2018, //theconversation.com/how-pharmacists-can-help-solve-medication-errors-98527. Accessed 15 Nov. 2018.
Consider
the following passage from an article about the rise in three-generation households:
In a recent study, I discovered that the number of kids living with their parents and grandparents—in what demographers call a three-generation household—has nearly doubled over the past two decades.Why has this been happening? And is it a good thing or a bad thing?The answers are complex. The reasons for the trend are as broad as social forces—like a decline in marriage rates—to unique family circumstances,
like the loss of a parent's job.The trend is worth studying because by better understanding who children live with, we can design better policies aimed at helping kids. Programs targeting kids usually overlook these other people living under the same roof. But odds are that if grandma's there, she matters, too.
Source Citation: Pilkauskas, Natasha. "What's behind the Dramatic Rise in 3-Generation Households?" The Conversation, 7 Nov. 2018,
//theconversation.com/whats-behind-the-dramatic-rise-in-3-generation-households-104523. Accessed 15 Nov. 2018.
After referencing this passage, a writer includes the below paragraph in her essay. Decide whether any of the material was plagiarized, and if so, which kind of plagiarism it was.
I teach at a local middle school, and we rely on parent/teacher conferences to help us connect with the family, who ideally is the support system for the children. Research shows that it's
increasingly more likely that children's support system at home includes grandparents—that children come from a multi-generation home. If a child is doing poorly in school, there are many factors that could be at play. It's important for teachers to find ways to involve everyone at the home in the success of the child's education and to encourage frequent communication with teachers about co-authored strategies for helping the students.
A writer has included
the following sentence in his paper about daylight savings time, but he isn't sure that his readers will know what biannual means. Edit the sentence to clarify the definition of biannual.
Michael Downing, author of "100 Years Later, the Madness of Daylight Saving Time Endures," writes, "One hundred years after Congress passed the first daylight saving legislation, more and more people are doubting the wisdom of changing the clocks. In August, the EU Commission proposed ending the biannual
practicePress Space to openending the biannual [twice-a-year] practiceending the twice-a-year practiceending the biannual [twice-a-year] practice. Last winter, lawmakers in Florida passed the 'Sunshine Protection Act,' which will make daylight saving a year-round reality in the Sunshine State."
Source Citation: Downing, Michael. "100 Years Later, the Madness of Daylight Saving Time Endures." The Conversation, 9 Mar. 2018,
//theconversation.com/100-years-later-the-madness-of-daylight-saving-time-endures-93048. Accessed 15 Nov. 2018.
Click or tap on each signal phrase in the passage below. If there are no signal phrases, click or tap "No signal phrase."
For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly
rich store of information are many, and they've been widely described and duly applauded. "The perfect recall of silicon memory," Wired's Clive Thompson has written, "can be an enormous boon to thinking." But that boon comes at a price. As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for
concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
Source Citation: Carr, Nicholas. "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" The Atlantic, July/August 2008, //www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/. Accessed 15 Nov. 2018.
Consider
the following passage from an article about online social networking and addiction:Researchers have suggested that the excessive use of new technologies [and especially online social networking] may be particularly addictive to young people. In accordance with the biopsychosocial framework for the etiology of addictions and the syndrome model of addiction, it is claimed that those people addicted to using [social networking sites] experience symptoms similar to those experienced by those who
suffer from addictions to substances or other behaviors. This has significant implications for clinical practice because unlike other addictions, the goal of [social networking sites] addiction treatment cannot be total abstinence from using the Internet per se since the latter is an integral element of today's professional and leisure culture.
Source Citation: Kuss, Daria J., and Mark D. Griffiths. "Online Social Networking and Addiction—a Review of the Psychological Literature."
International journal of environmental research and public health, vol. 8, no. 9, 2011, pp. 3528-52. Accessed 15 Nov. 2018.
A writer includes the below paragraph in his paper about the dangers of drinking and driving. Click or tap on any sentences that should use signal phrases and/or in-text citations to clarify which ideas the writer got from this source material.
Click or tap on words, phrases, or items in the passage below to complete the question as instructed.
It often seems that
people follow others' lives on social media to the exclusion of living [and being content with] their own lives. People wake up to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat feeds and can't wait to click to the latest text and images about what 'better' things others are doing with their lives and about all the ways they are 'happier.' Some research uses the term 'addiction' in relation to an obsession with using social media and suggests that this might be especially problematic for young
people. The research also raises the problem that unlike with other addictions, people cannot simply abandon the internet as they seek treatment because it is so integrated into everyone's everyday lives.
Consider the following passage from a document about drunk driving:Alcohol level is measured by the weight of the alcohol in a certain volume of blood. This is called Blood Alcohol Concentration, or BAC. At a BAC of .08 grams of alcohol per deciliter of
blood [g/dL], crash risk increases exponentially. Because of this risk, it's illegal in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to drive with a BAC of .08 or higher. However, even a small amount of alcohol can affect driving ability. In 2016, there were 2,017 people killed in alcohol-related crashes where drivers had lower alcohol levels [BACs of .01 to .07 g/dL].
Source Citation: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. "Drunk Driving." National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, //www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving. Accessed 14 Nov. 2018.
A writer includes the below paragraph in his paper about the dangers of drinking and driving. Click or tap on any sentences that should use signal phrases and/or in-text citations to clarify which ideas the writer got from the source material above.
Too many people drive when they have been drinking, putting themselves and others at risk. No amount of convenience is worth the risk of hurting others or
oneself or getting a drunk driving charge, which comes with very high monetary penalties. People need to make alternate plans before they start drinking, because after they have been drinking, they can be fooled by thinking themselves more capable than they actually are. Research shows that people can be affected even from very small amounts of alcohol.
Consider the following passage from a document about increases in college tuition and fees:"Whether your
kids are off to nursery school, college, or a private elementary or high school, paying for tuition, housing, textbooks, and other school-related expenses may pose a challenge to the family budget. From January 2006 to July 2016, the Consumer Price Index for college tuition and fees increased 63 percent, compared with an increase of 21 percent for all items. Over that period, consumer prices for college textbooks increased 88 percent and housing at school [excluding board] increased 51
percent."
Source Citation: Bureau of Labor Statistics. "College tuition and fees increase 63 percent since January 2006." Bureau of Labor Statistics, 30 Aug. 2016, //www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2016/college-tuition-and-fees-increase-63-percent-since-january-2006.htm. Accessed 15 Nov. 2018.
A writer includes the below paragraph in his paper about the cost of textbooks. Click or tap on any sentences that should use signal phrases and/or in-text citations to clarify which ideas the writer got
from this source material.
Click or tap on words, phrases, or items in the passage below to complete the question as instructed.
The high cost of textbooks has been a problem for many college students for a while. From 2006 to 2016, "consumer prices for college textbooks increased 88 percent." Students, whether traditional or returning, often have many obstacles in front of them when they are considering going to college, including full work schedules, family responsibilities, as well as
many other issues, and textbook cost is hopefully one obstacle that can be removed. Colleges are working hard to find ways to help students with this issue, one of which is providing lower cost or free e-textbooks.