Discussion board post - Assignment Example

Response 2 The topic sentence, “People get married for reasons other than love” does not support the thesis statement, “To make a marriage work, a couple must build trust, communication, and understanding.” This is because the thesis statement seeks to address the components of a good marriage while the topic sentence seemingly defines the purposes and the factors that lead to a marriage. Response 3 The topic sentence, “Many customers use PayPal for online purchases” does not support the thesis statement, “Internet sales are capturing a larger market share relative to in-store sales.

” This is because the thesis statement seeks to compare the magnitude of internet sales with that of in-store sales while the topic sentence clearly define the modes of payments used by most online customers. PART 2 Paragraph 1 Recent research has given us much deeper—and more surprising—insights into the father’s role in childrearing. My family is typical of the east side in that we never had much money. Their tongues became black and hung out of their mouths. The back-to-basics movement got a lot of press, fueled as it was by fears of growing illiteracy and cultural demise.

Paragraph 3 Recent research has given us much deeper—and more surprising—insights into the father’s role in childrearing. It shows that in almost all of their interactions with children, fathers do things a little differently from mothers. What fathers do—their special parenting style—is not only highly complementary to what mothers do but is by all indications important in its own right. [The passage continues by showing the special ways that fathers contribute to childrearing.] Response 1 The third paragraph makes most sense to me because it has a good structure and sentence flow that conveniently explains the unique research findings, which discuss the father’s role in childrearing.

It shows how fathers contribute to childrearing and equally compares their role with that of mothers. However, the first paragraph makes no sense at all because it is hard to understand, has no flow, and the sentences do not correlate with the father’s role in childrearing. Response 2 1) Much of the violence we see in the world today may be caused by the emphasis on violence in the media. (2) More often than not, the front page of the local newspaper contains stories involving violence. (3) In fact, one recent issue of my local newspaper contained several references to violent acts. (4) There is also violence in public school systems. (5) Television reporters frequently hasten to crime and accident scenes and film every grim, violent detail. (6) The other day, there was a drive-by shooting downtown. (7) If the media were a little more careful about the ways in which they glamorize violence, there might be less violence in the world today and children would be less influenced by it.

There is no unity in the above paragraph because no explanation follows the fourth sentence and indeed the fifth sentence does not refer to the fourth sentence thus isolating the fourth sentence from the entire paragraph. Response 3 1) A fairy tale is a serious story with a human hero and a happy ending. (2) The hero in a fairy tale is different from the hero in a tragedy in that his progression is from bad to good fortune,