Exam 12: Arguing

Answer the following questions about the essay. -How does the essay address opposing viewpoints? Is the author's strategy effective? Why or why not?

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -That the practice is widespread remains a disturbing indicator of how poorly we treat the hundreds of thousands of minors arrested each year in the United States.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Young inmates should be managed in a way that promotes their healthy __________ and __________.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -What type of tone is created when the author says, "This phenomenon, coupled with the growing powers of automation and artificial intelligence, which promises to make replacing human beings even cheaper, means there is a very important conversation we need to be having-but that conversation is not about the effects of social media" (paragraph 3)? Is this tone effective for the argument being presented? Why or why not?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Putting teenagers in solitary was more common in adult ____________ and ____________.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -But it's a process in which we shortchange ourselves.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -In paragraph 16, the author describes the time she brought a social robot that was "designed in the shape of a baby seal" to an elder-care facility. Does this example effectively support the argument she makes against using social robots as companions? Why or why not?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -How many of the suicides that occurred in juvenile facilities happened while the detainee was being held in solitary?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Find an appeal to logic and to emotion in the essay. How do they both work for this particular topic and argument? Is one more effective than the other in this essay?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -The final emotional appeal that the author makes describes her experience __________.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -New York has led the way on the latter by pledging to end solitary for 16- and 17-year-olds held as adults in its prisons and in jail at Rikers Island.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What category of people does Tufekci suggest could use social media to improve their social lives?

Television does not satisfy, or else why would the viewer continue to watch hour after hour, day after day? "The measure of health," writes Lawrence Kubie, "is flexibility… and especially the freedom to cease when sated." But the television viewer can never be sated with his television experiences-they do not provide the true nourishment that satiation requires-and thus he finds that he cannot stop watching. -Marie Winn -What evidence does the paragraph provide to support the topic sentence? How would you classify it?

You can use one or more types of ______________ in any argument paragraph.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What does data suggest about the elderly and social media?

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions after each paragraph. The United States has not made a mistake by admitting millions of immigrants since the law was changed in 1965. Indeed, America's liberal immigration policy is one of our proudest public accomplishments. But America's liberal immigration policy is more likely to find continued acceptance among most Americans and keep the nativists at bay if the immigration preference system is changed to assure a fairer and more nationally diverse pool of immigrants. So let's not turn our backs on one of the most successful American ideas. Let's get it right. -Peter Salins -How is the evidence in this paragraph organized: general to particular, particular to general, from one extreme to another? ______________________________________

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -One girl who spent four months in solitary confinement in a county jail at 16, ostensibly to be protected from adults there, told me that solitary was "a dark place."

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -And the first to be thrown overboard tend to be the elderly, the disabled, and anyone not integrated tightly into the global supply-chain.

Your ____________ depends a great deal upon the opinions of your ________________.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -We want to customize our lives.