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Extreme Sports

Expository Reading and Writing Course

Cage Fighting / MMA

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Street Luge

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Skateboarding

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X - Games

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More X Games

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X Games / Snowboarding

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Hangliding / Parasailing

^^^Over Everest!!^^^

Base Jumping / Wingsuit Flying

Pair / Share

• Why do you think everyone is fascinated in extreme activity activities?

• Now that you’ve described the whys, what are the potential outcomes to enjoying extreme sports?

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Background Information

• Look at the images in Claire Davidson’s content “The World’s Most Risky Activities.” Do they terrify you?

• Do they encourage you to discover more about any sport?

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Let’s Read!

• “The World’s Most Risky Sports” (first 9 paragraphs)

• In categories, study your allocated area and review or paraphrase that area – written. Do an excellent job, because….

• Each team will present their summaries to the other course. See why I talked about to do an excellent job?

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What do you think?

• Now that you’ve make out the print, what do you think is the intention of Ms. Davidson’s article?

• Is it a warning? Is it merely informative? Etc….

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•Create a brief passage describing which excessive game would be the most enjoyable or terrifying to you.• Which would you be least or most likely to take part in? • Why or why not?

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Brainstorm!!!!

What are some words that you associate with extreme sports?

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• Are excessive activities an excellent idea? Why or why not?

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Surveying The Text

• What does the headline “Extreme Activities Not About Risk-Taking: Study” tell you about the author’s perspective on the risks and factors individuals get involved in excessive sports?

• What is the objective of the article?

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Surveying the Text

• What does the headline “Camp For Children With Autism Provides Excessive Therapy” recommend about the author’s place or perspective on the risks and factors individuals get involved in extreme sports?

• What is the objective of the article?

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Surveying the Text

• What does the headline “A Serious Caution to Wingsuit Flyers” by Lola Jackson recommend about the author’s place or perspective on the risks and factors people get involved in excessive sports?

• What are you is the objective of the article?

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Surveying the Text

• What does the title “A Serious Warning to Wingsuit Flyers” by Lola Fitzgibbons suggest about the author’s position or viewpoint on the threats and aspects individuals try extreme sports?

• What are you is the purpose of the article?

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Surveying the Text• What does the headline “A Serious Caution to

Wingsuit Flyers” by Lola Knutson recommend about the author’s place or perspective on the risks and factors people try excessive sports?

• What are you is the objective of the article?

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Making Predictions and Asking Questions

• t Risk-taking: Study?• Considering the content “Extreme Activities

Not About Risk-taking: Research,” what justifications do you think the writer will make?

• Let’s study the first four sections.• Where does the release end in “Extreme

Activities Not About

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• Let’s study the first three sections of “A Serious Caution To Wingsuit Brochures.”

• According to the writing, was your unique forecast about the author’s material and objective correct?Where does the introduction end in this article?

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• Let’s browse the first two sections of ABC News’ “Camp for Children Autism Provides Excessive Treatment.”

• What query would you most like to ask Donvan?

• Maybe something like:What is autism? What does autism have to do with getting extreme risks?

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• In the last passage of Donvan’s content, what term or phrase(s) seem to provide his discussion ethos, or credibility?

• He provides evidence because he declares that the “…sign the camping ground works: Most of the people return.”

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• Edit the headings and subtitles and turn them into inquiries to be responded to after you look at the full content.

• What is the serious caution to Wingsuit Flyers?

• Are Excessive Activities about the risk taking?How does the camping ground benefit children autism?

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• Let’s study the last sections of each of the content.

• How are they different?• Jones: Finishes with condolences to those near to

Robson.• Donvan: Finishes with compliment for the

camping and it’s achievements.• Extreme Activities not about the danger ends

with statement recognizing individuals for different factors other than an excitement hurry.

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• What is the origin of each content (magazine, publication, weblog, paper, etc.) – and why does it matter?

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Introducing Key VocabularyTerms Definition Know

itHeard

ItDon’t

Know It

adrenaline junkies

syndrome

lose inhibitions

aversion to risk

genetic condition

autism

visceral

unsanctioned4

those addicted to the rush adrenaline produces when taking risks or facing danger

An idea or affliction causing suffering to someone

ignore internal warning signs

Our natural resistance to risk

Trait linked to our DNA

Condition in which stimulation drastically affects a person’s behaviorinstinctive

Not official

Semantic Map• In categories, make a semantic map for each

of the terminology conditions on the graph.For Example:

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Reason:

ThrillChallenge

Defy death

Activity:

Base JumpingWingsuit Flying

Parasailing

adrenaline junkie

Result:

Personal ChallengeBucket List

Live Like Larry

First Reading – “Extreme Sports Not About Risk-taking: Study

• Let’s lastly study all of these content content in their whole, beginning with “Extreme Activities Not About Risk-taking: Study”

• Of your unique forecasts, which were right? Which did you have to alter as you again go through the article?

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First Reading – “Extreme Sports Not About Risk-taking: Study”

• Identify the phrase such as the main understanding of the article.

• Paragraph 3: “Dr. Brymer discovered that, although the picture of those who take part in excessive activities was that of risk-takers and excitement lovers, the other was real.”

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First Reading – “A Solemn Warning to Wingsuit Flyers”

• SAY / MEAN / MATTER: What does it SAY, what does it MEAN, and why does it MATTER?

• Complete the graph on to response these questions: Does the Lola Jackson have a job or prejudice on the issue? What, if anything, does Jackson recommend needs to be done about the issue?

What did she SAY?What did she MEAN?Why does it MATTER?

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First Reading – “Camp for Kids with Autism Offers Extreme Therapy”

• Select one term, declaration or reality that amazed you about children autism.

• Why did it shock you? • What does it SAY / MEAN / MATTER?

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First Reading: Say/Mean/Matter

• You’ve recognized some essential information or factors from each of the content. Using the graph, talk about in categories what those information and factors actually “mean” in regards to the problem, and how or why it is essential.

• What does it Say / Mean / Matter?

First Reading: Say / Mean / Matter

You’ve recognized some essential information or factors from each of the articles in the earlier action. In categories, and using the following desk, talk about what the essential factors and factors actually “mean” in regards to the problem, and why or how it is essential to the problem. After a bit, we’ll be discussing our findings….

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First Reading – Say / Mean / Matter

Source: Title & Author

Location: page & paragraph

Excerpt / text What does

it SAY?What

does it MEAN?

Why does it

MATTER?

“Solemn Warning” Jones Paragraph 9

“It is an inherently dangerous sport, but a sport participated in by people with huge skydiving experience…”

Wingsuit flying is dangerous

Be very experienced in a related sport before trying

Implies that people need to make up their own mind if this is for them or not

“Camp for kids with autism….”, Para. 24

“Gilstrap wants campers to struggle, but only so much.”

Doesn’t want them to struggle too much

He wants them to achieve difficult goals, but not push themselves too far

Shows he has the kids’ best interests in mind.

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Looking Closely at Language:

Loaded WordsDoes anyone keep in mind lately referring to terms that have a good or bad connotation? Anyone? Anyone?

“Loaded words” are terms or words that expose an author’s prejudice on a problem or point in a written text.

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Looking Closely at LanguageLoaded Words

• If we check out the content “Extreme Activities Not About Threat Taking” we can look for “loaded words” that clearly display that the writer has an viewpoint or prejudice about a reality or part of information.

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Looking Closely at LanguageLoaded Words

Loaded Word or Phrase

Literal Meaning Author’s Bias Suggested Article / Source

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Adrenaline Junkies

People who crave adrenaline

Reveals some in society may have a negative connotation towards extreme sports participation

“Extreme Sports…”

In groups, scan through the articles and see if you can find more loaded words. Find at least two per article!

Rereading The TextI-Chart

• As you again go through the content, complete the following I-Chart to help evaluate key concepts from the content so each author’s place to important problems provided and what exactly each writer makes about problems can be examined.

• This I-Chart requests three concerns that each article details in some way.

I-Chart

ArticleHow does the article

characterize people that participate in Extreme

Sports?

What is the author’s bias on Extreme

Sports?

Effects of Extreme Sports

Rereading and Annotating the Text

• So let’s again go through Davidson’s content and make annotations to recognize the following:

• Draw a line where the Release finishes. Where does the writer quit creating common claims and start creating a particular point about excessive sports?


2 What is the issue or issue being addressed?Label each factor or subject phrase at the

starting of each phrase in either the edge or in the area between each range.

Label the first factor P1, the second P2 and so on.


3 Author’s assisting evidenceUse parenthesis { } to recognize the important points,

views and feedback the writing provides to support each factor.

The { } should begin at the end of one factor and include each assisting feedback until the next factor starts.

The { } should expand down the document until the next factor starts, where you brand the second factor, P2


4. Now attract a range where the Summary starts.

See how simple this can be?

Considering the Structure of the Text Organization

• .As you again go through the manuscripts, you are to examine the company of each author’s discussion or written text.

• Was the information provided in a tale line, like a tale written text or story?

• Was a issue mentioned, then alternatives mentioned, or were things combined in a cause and effect organization: issue declaration then results, results or results the issue or events?

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• .So let’s response the following questions:• How was Jones’ content “A Serious Caution to

Wingsuit Brochures,” organized?• Sequential – gives history on Robson, his

credentials, then the important points behind his loss of life.


2. How was Donvan’s content organized? Is there a series of activities or does he start with determining a issue and revealing what the Camping does for the kids?

3. Problem/ remedy – autism is defined; children are described that are clinically identified as having it; how the ideologies advantages (effects) them is described.


3. How was the Excessive Activities Not About Risk-taking: Study” content organized?

4. Cause and Impact. Declares values of why individuals get involved in extreme sports, then states outcomes of research to prove/disprove.


4. How was the Davidson content organized?

Considering the Structure of the Text

• Look at the manuscripts that have titles. Let’s analyze how the titles work. In your laptop, response the following:

• Do they split huge sections of written text into controllable sections?

• Do they provide a brief review of the information in the next few paragraphs?


3. Do they offer key terms for the reader?4. Do some of the going seem to happen again,

showing the titles are used consistently by the students in the discipline?

5. Now that you’ve seen how titles perform, we’re going to offer titles for the content that don’t have them.


• Do some of the going seem to occur again, displaying the headings are used continually by learners in the discipline?


Directions: Support at least two of the exclusive titles you designed last night by finishing a picture manager with terms or terms from the writing that are the proof on which you based your going.

I didn’t make you a picture manager. You have to make your own – so there.

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• Create your going in the middle of the manager. Let’s do a web, much like our semantic map, shall we? Keep in mind those?

• For the other sectors, select an effective action-word from the phrase financial institution that best explains what you really feel to be the author’s intent; then, offer the keywords from the written written text you centered your declare on. Use quotes to get the author’s particular terms.

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This will help you to prefer others’ terms when you use them to create and assistance your own factors in your composing later.

Active Action-word Term Bank:informs, persuades, declines, claims, warrants,

elaborates, presents, concludes…10c


• You are to use “A Serious Caution for Wingsuit Flyers”, however I am going to use “Extreme Activities Not About Risk-taking: Research.”

HEADING: Risk: Missing

The Point

VERBS:informsargues

concludes

BASIS FOR VERB:“research”

“different framework from traditional understanding”

Who’s On First?

Sentence Starters

Sometimes beginning a phrase is the hardest portion of composing. Especially when you are referring to something from an origin and you have to distinguish from your own “voice.”

You might also be in the place of evaluating or distinct different resources - so how do you get those varying “voices” to have a “conversation?”

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Sentence Starters

These phrase beginners will help you consist of key details and details from an content into your own terms. This will provide your composing ethos, or reliability. However, when you use the terms of others, you must provide them with credit rating for their own composing and work.

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Sentence Starters

The following are kinds of term newbies for “Extreme Actions Not About Risk Taking: Study”..

• Dr. Brymer states that…• He also statements that…• It is also apparent that Dr. Brymer believes…• While Dr. Brymer found that…

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Sentence Starters

The following are general phrase beginners you may wish to use:

• The problem of ______ has several different viewpoints.

• While some professionals don't agree on what to do about...

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Sentence Starters

These beginners help you present concepts from particular writers:

• Mentioned specialist (author’s name here) claims that . . .

• In a innovative content, (author’s name here) declares that . . .

• According to (author’s name here) . . .

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Sentence Starters

Opposite or opposite opinions can be signaled by these phrase starters:

• However, the information provided by Dr. Phil McGraw reveals . . .

• However, Terry T. Instructor considers. .

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Sentence Starters

These phrase beginners help you to add your own speech to your writing:

• Although some claim for ______, others claim for ______. In my perspective . . .

• Though scientists don't agree, clearly . ..

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Sentence Starters

So let’s come up with our own phrase starters! For example…

From Lola Jones’ content “A Serious Caution to Wingsuit Flyers”:

In a piece of writing for Xtreme Game, Lola Jackson declares that…

It is obvious that Ms. Jackson considers that….

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Sentence Starters

THINK/PAIR/SHARE

•Look at the article “Camp for Kids Autism Provides Excessive Treatment.” With your shoulder associate, come up with three phrase beginners.

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Using the Words of Others to Create a Voice

• You will be getting other authors’ details and using it so assistance your own statements There are three methods to do this:

• Direct quotation: In “Extreme Activities Not About Risk-taking: Study” Dr. Brymer discovered that individuals who get involved in excessive sports have an picture of “risk takers and excitement lovers,” which he discovered really isn’t real. (Paragraph 3)

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2. Paraphrase: In “Extreme Activities Not About Risk-taking: Study”, Dr. Brymer notices that people who take part in excessive sports try to be ready so they can reduce their threat of harm. (Paragraph 8)

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3. Summary: In “Extreme Activities Not About Risk-taking: Study”, Dr. Brymer highlights studies to display that many people who get involved in excessive sports do so for factors other than an excitement hurry. He highlights that they don’t like to be uncontrolled and that by be prepared for their game they believe they are really responsible. (Paragraph 11)

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Putting It TogetherLook at the content “Camp for Children with Autism Provides Excessive Therapy” Choose a primary factor or concept from the content.Use or change the phrase beginners you designed formerly.Decide what technique you’d like to use (direct quote, paraphrase or summary) and develop a phrase or declaration that you might use for your article.

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Putting It Together

FOR EXAMPLE:1.An concepts or factor from Lola Jones’ content

“A Serious Caution to Wingsuit Flyers”:2.“Wingsuit traveling and BASE moving probably

the biggest of all.”3.Choose or make a phrase starter:

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Lola Jones states that…

Putting It Together

3. Select whether to use immediate quote, paraphrase and conclusion. Let’s choose immediate quote and create the statement:

4. Lola Jackson declares that “wingsuit traveling and BASE moving probably the biggest of all.”

5. We’re not there yet – this isn’t quite right. We have to make the quote fit and make up a more finish declaration.

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Putting It Together

We can keep the quotation unchanged and add a condition to help finish its perspective, like:All excessive activities bring some factor of threat, however Lola Jackson declares that “wingsuit traveling and BASE moving probably the most risky of all.”Or we can modify within the quotation – something like: Lola Jackson declares that “wingsuit traveling and BASE moving [are] probably the most risky [extreme sports] of all.”

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Putting It Together

“Camping for Children with Autism Provides Excessive Therapy” Choose a primary point or concept from the content.Use or change the phrase beginners you designed formerly.Decide what technique you’d like to use (direct quote, paraphrase or summary) and develop a phrase or declaration that you might use for your content.

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Thinking Critically

• What is rhetoric?• noun ˈre-tə-rik: terminology that is supposed

to guide individuals and that may not be truthful or reasonable

• the art or expertise of discussing or composing officially and successfully especially as a way to steer or impact people

Thinking Critically

• So what makes over stated statements effective? Efficient over stated statements attracts people in and help people interact with a perspective at two levels:

• Emotional (pathos) – Do the author’s statements make you upset, sad, happy or concerned?

• Logical (logos) – Do the author’s statements seem appropriate? Is what they recommend genuine or even possible, or is it foolish and impossible?

Thinking Critically

• Efficient over stated claims also has reliability (ethos); you can believe in what the writer says because they depend on information, research and professionals leaving comments on the problem they are disagreeing. Does their information come from efficient sources?

Thinking Critically• These are the concerns that will help you to

recognize and evaluate an author’s rhetorical attracts feelings, reasoning and reliability. These concerns will help you know what an writer says or statements and evaluate the durability of the declare.

• Ethos, pathos and images are three conditions that are the basis of any rhetorical written text or discussion.

Answer the following questions:1. What significant statements are produced in the

text? Can you think of any reverse justifications the writer didn’t consider?

2. Does the writer have the appropriate qualifications to talk with power on the subject?

3. Do you have the writer is trying to control their visitors emotionally?

4. Who does the writer use as sources? Are they experts? Did the writer depend too much on their opinion?

Writing Assignment

• You will have 45 minutes to create an article on the subject below. This is a difficult set up. You will be instructed to get involved in several actions to modify and modify your document before it is last.

• Before you begin composing, look at the passing properly and plan what you will say.

Writing Assignment• Select ONE of the following quotations and:• Explain the quotations or author’s declare or

argument• Discuss the level to which you believe the declare

using any or all of the content you study during this device, your own encounters, and findings.

• Be sure to use particular illustrations to assistance your claim

Writing Assignment• Consider the following quotations about

threat and warning to finish your essay:• “Security is a type of loss of life.”• - Tn Williams

• “Beware the activity that consumes.”• - Ben Franklin

Yeah, No. No. Not Really.

• Mrs. Moring and I discussed it over. We didn’t like the immediate. We didn’t like the quotations. We were involved that you would mild torches and get pitchforks. And, to be honest, who needs that?

• Not me. Nor Mrs. Moring. Neither do you, really. It’s the type of factor that remains in your computer file.

Let’s move on….

Getting Ready To Write

• So, let’s recall at the “Thinking Critically” area from before. What were the three components in rhetorical writing? I known as them the “legs of a feces.”

• Ethos, pathos and logos!• I know we worked well in big categories before,

so now that we have that under our straps, let’s ask those concerns once more, about “Extreme Activities Not About Risk-taking: Study”

Answer the following questions:1. What significant statements are designed in the text?

Can you think of any reverse justifications the writer didn’t consider?

2. Does the writer have the appropriate qualifications to talk with power on the subject?

3. Do you have the writer is trying to control their visitors emotionally?



1. In “Extreme Activities Not About Risk-taking: Study”, what significant statements are produced in the text? (Hint: there are 4) Can you think of any reverse justifications the writer didn’t consider?

2. The content “Extreme Activities Not About Risk-taking: Study” creates four claims:

3. People who take part in excessive sports are not excitement lovers.


b) Next, it is mentioned that members get a real sense of serenity from the ultimate activities they choose.

c) While some are interested in the high threat part of utmost sports, most see the danger as a negative thing.

d) Lastly, the article makes clear that most people eliminate the danger factor and possible damage through cautious planning


• Reverse arguments:• A counter discussion that this content “Extreme

Activities Not About Risk-taking: Study” did not deal with is explanation why those who are dependent to threat, as mentioned in passage 12. I would like to have more details as to why they see threat as a advantage when the most of excessive game members do not.

• .


2. Is the writer experienced on the subject?3. The writer seems to be to be certified to variety of

the topic. He acquired his information from a extremely experienced resource, Dr. Brymer, a physician and speaker from the University of Individual Activity Analysis in the Staff of Health. I feel he could be more reliable if the writer advised us what company or school your physician is connected to and how long he has been performing his research.


3. Do you experience the writer is trying to psychologically operate the reader?

4. I do not experience there is any adjustment on negligence the writer. The writer has a very fairly neutral or impartial overall tone throughout the article; he uses several immediate quotations from Dr. Brymer without such as any of his own views or results. He even finishes the content with a quotation from Dr. Brymer making him to have the last term.



5. This has been responded to above. Dr. Brymer seems to be a efficient, professional resource. The writer did not really depend too much on his viewpoint because this content was mainly about Dr. Brymer’s research.


• The following quotation, from “Extreme Activities Not About Risk-taking: Study” is the immediate for your article. First, you’ll build a dissertation declaration, depending on whether or not you believe the fact with the quotation, and you will back again up your dissertation with proof from the four content, justifications and reverse justifications.

Writing Prompt

“A very important factor that came up was that they recognize individuals see them as risk-takers, but they do not see themselves that way at all, and they mentioned the street as an analysis, saying that traversing the street or generating was more dangerous.”

- “Extreme Activities Not About Risk-Taking: Study” (Paragraph 9)

Prompt (Continued)

• Describe the author’s discussion and talk about the level to which you believe the fact or not believe the fact with their research. Support your position, providing reasons and illustrations from your own experience, findings, or reading.

Formulating a Working Thesis

• In rhetorical composing, you must have a anchorman, or dissertation, that connections together all of the guidelines in your document. To build a obvious dissertation, consider the following questions:


• What is the author’s claim? • How does it vary or how is it just like my

claim? • What assisting proof do I have, and what is

the source?• You can make a graph, if you think it might be

beneficial, to respond these concerns.

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Answer the following:• What is the problem or query you are addressing?

(your preliminary thesis)• What assistance from everything and annotations have

you discovered for your thesis? (these are your points)• What proof have you discovered for this assistance

(e.g., information, research, claims from regulators, individual expertise, stories, circumstances, and examples)?

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• How much history do visitors need to comprehend your subject and thesis?

• If visitors were to don't agree with your dissertation or the credibility of your assistance, what would they say? How would you deal with their issues (what would you say to them)?

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• You are to believe you are composing for the best viewers. Now discuss the following:

• How much qualifications information does your viewers have on the topic?

• What concerns or justifications do you think your viewers might have regarding your declare and evidence?

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• Now that you have gathered and examined info on the subject and your viewers, you are prepared to make your dissertation.

• A dissertation, however, has to be very concise; you don’t want to mix up people from the begin. It is the first impact you are making on people.

• Create your own operator that suits your dissertation. The following are illustrations only – they may not perform for you!

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• While the problem of ______ has several different viewpoints, I have found …

• Extreme activities can captivate, excitement, or scare us. One query, however, is why individuals …

• Experts don't agree on why individuals select …• While some believe excessive activities are

_____, I believe they are ____.17c

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