Question

II. Read the descriptions or example and determine the author's purpose: to entertain, to persuade, or to inform. Then, explain your answer.

1. Do you want to add years to your life and feel better too? Here are a few tips. First, to decrease your chances of a heart attack, eat a handful of nuts each day. Also, to ease the effects of rheumatoid arthritis, be sure to include some citrus, such as orange juice, in your diet. Finally, exercise on a regular basis. Include weight-bearing activities such as walking and jogging. Also, try yoga for flexibility and stress relief.

Author's purpose:

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2. Circadian rhythms have fascinated scientists for many years. Recognizing that the eye nerves translate information to the brain about the time of day, scientists observe that we adapt to the conditions around us. Also, these researchers have recently discovered that not everyone is alike. For example, teenagers are nocturnal. That is, they are more active at night but do not function as well early in the morning.

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3. Students ordinarily make sense of concepts in either of two ways. For sequential learners, understanding occurs as they take in information in small, connected steps. By contrast, global learners may seem to miss the information initially but later grasp concepts in a leap of understanding.

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III. Choose one of the following topics: online classes, technology, superstitions, computers. Then, select one prewriting technique to develop one of the topics above. ​

Answer 1

Explicación:

Entertetain, persuade, inform.

1. Persuade

2. Inform

3. Entertainment

reasons

1. The author is talking about healthy and gave us an important key to know what kind of technique he's using, and is the question at the beginning of the text. After that question he start to talk about what we need to do if we want to improve our healthy and our Heart

2. It's telling us (author) something important but without trying to convence the people, just saying something interesting. Informing us about circadian rhythm.

3. Definitely, this text his intention is Entertain us. It's about how some times (I might say that it's more than a couple of time) we uses an expression very very unique or ambiguous, trying to saying 2 thing or maybe more without compromete us in something real.

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Topic: Online Classes

Author's Purpose: Inform

When all of this problem started (pandemic) it was very difficult to some students get involve as well as they wishes in their classes. Maybe because they just cannot had access to a good network or they don't how to access without some source. In some places of the world, some people are very luck just if they have internet, that's a luxury, and have computer are very weird.