FORMULATING A CONCLUDING SENTENCE FOR A PARAGRAPH Why is a concluding sentence important in a paragraph? It is needed to show that the writer has completed what he wants to say and to leave in the reader’s mind a final statement of the paragraph’s main idea. What is a concluding sentence? It pulls together or summarizes the main idea of the paragraph‚ usually in a single sentence. The concluding sentence also provides a definite ending point for the paragraph. What can you do to make sure that
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Facts & Statistics The numbers continue to rise every month... - It is estimated that 160‚000 children miss school every day due to fear of attack or intimidation by other students. Source: National Education Association. - American schools harbor approximately 2.1 million bullies and 2.7 million of their victims. Dan Olweus‚ National School Safety Center. - 1 in 7 Students in Grades K-12 is either a bully or a victim of bullying. - 56% of students have personally witnessed some type of
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Becca Dix In Spoon River Anthology‚ Edgar Lee Masters shatters the myths of small town life in America by his use of style and tone. Masters characterizes the Town Marshall and Jack McGuire by their Thoughts‚ similarities‚ and their point of views. The Towns’ people thought of him as “ Grim‚righteous‚strong‚courageous‚ and a hater of saloons and drinkers”(19) just because they thought of him as a terrible man for killing a swede while he was drunk‚ which derived his hatred for alcohol. A waste
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Your Message Can Wait! “BEEP‚ BEEP‚ BEEP!” A new message was delivered as you drive back home from school. Maybe from your crush trying to reach you to set up a date‚ or maybe a message from your mom asking you to turn off the oven when you get home. Whatever the occasion it might be‚ it is just very tempting to pick up your handheld device and reply back. So you do. OOPSS! You just fell into your own trap. The moment you picked up your phone‚ you immediately lost total focus of the road leading
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Technology; Is it getting too Involved in our Daily Lives? Over the past few years technology has advanced in so many ways. It has become a large part of different areas in people’s lives. Younger generations cannot function without help. Could too much use of technology harm people’s health‚ meanwhile‚ leaving a gap between generations? If you look around‚ technology is a large part of every aspect of our modern day life. There are computer controlled cars‚ planes‚ and houses. Most people need
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Sam Student Professor Bakehouse COM152 Topic: Sex offenders’ use of social media General Purpose: To persuade the audience that it is a problem there are no regulations against sex offenders using social media Specific Purpose: To convince the audience to participate in ways to protect our community from unregulated sex offenders using social media sites Thesis: In order to protect the community of Omaha‚ we must find ways protect ourselves from sex offenders on social media sites. I. Introduction
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Dear Mr. Larson‚ I have been made aware of your plan to build a beneficial facility for young people in Chino Hills. Please read the following letter that will explain to you that building a youth activity center would be most beneficial to our wonderful city. Many may say that no one would come to the James Larson Youth Activity Center because of its membership fees‚ but any child who cannot afford the fee because financial problems in their family can submit their information and will be
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The Goal of Persuasive Speaking Persuasion is a communication process involving both verbal and nonverbal messages. - The ultimate goal is action or change. * Adoption asks listeners to demonstrate their acceptance * Discontinuance asks listeners to avoid certain behavior * Deterrence asks listeners to prevent an occurrence of something * Continuance asks listeners to continue to perform behaviors Topics for Persuasive Speeches Questions of Fact identify what is true or false Questions
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Persuasive Essay : Many people would be happy and satisfied if they were in a relationship with money and fame. Doesn’t that seem like the perfect life? Everyone begins to think that in life that’s all that matters‚ and that’s all they need‚ nothing could be better. Society dictates our morals‚ feelings‚ the way we do things and try’s to tell us certain things we do are wrong and we need to do them the way they feel necessary. Our generations to come will have no clue what the meaning of a true‚
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Jesse Johnson Speech Bailey April 12‚ 2005 Persuasive Speeches When starting to think about what I am going to do for my persuasive speech I tried to think of a topic that I am going to be able to learn something from and also a topic that I already know something about. I was thinking of doing a speech on legalizing marijuana but I feel that a lot of people do speeches on this so I wanted to think of a new topic. I really have not thought about
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