Analyze and Adapt to Your Audience — Unit test

Question 32 • TX-Communication Applications

Which of the following is the most effective example of a thesis statement?

Answer

All nations must unite to address the 4 main causes of global warming: natural causes, pollution, increase in population, and deforestation.

All nations must unite to address the 4 main causes of global warming.

How can all nations unite to address the 4 main causes of global warming: natural causes, pollution, increase in population, and deforestation?

Both a. and c. above.

Explanation

A thesis statement presents a clear, arguable claim and may preview the reasons that support it. Choice a states that nations must unite and identifies four causes the essay could discuss. Choice c is phrased as a question, so it does not make an argument, and choice b is less specific because it does not name the causes.

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