ELA Examples

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Anjali Chikkula

Christina Tan

Karen Yang

Emily Zhuang

ELA EXAMPLES



Original:

A large Asian carnivorous mammal ( Panthera tigris ) of the cat family having ausually tawny coat transversely striped with black

~ Merriam- Webster: Tiger. 2011.

Paraphrased:

A tiger is a large Asian mammal, scientifically named ( Panthera tigris). It has

orange fur with black stripes.

PARAPHRASING



Websites:

About.com Yes, it is safe to use. The website has specializedauthors to write articles in their areas of expertise.

These authors have plenty of experience andeducation in these fields.

Wikipedia No, the authors have no experience nor expertise. At least there is no proof of credentials to show

the authors credibility.

WEBSITE EVALUATION



Some authors state that abortion do not cause the risk of Breast Cancer toincrease.

Many other authors state the opposite.

WHAT? HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!? Well, one of them are wrong.

If you keep researching you learn that abortion do NOT increase the risk of

breast cancer.

MULTIPLE AUTHORS



Cite the work from the Paraphrasing page

“tiger." Merriam-Webster.com . 2011. http://www.merriam- webster.com/dictionary/tiger (19 October 2011).

OR, if you are too lazy

( Webster, 2011) Add that to the end of the fact that you are taking from

the article or document.

CITATIONS



Threats Terrorism Severity of threatImportance of addressing threatsother than Terrorism.

NARROWING A TOPIC



Abortion should remain legal in the USA.

Abortions are moral and should remain legal. This is thesis is very restrictive.

Abortion is good. This is too broad and not specific.

THESIS



I believe that AI should not be allowed because I believe that they can take overthe world and make humans slaves. I believe we should destroy all AI.

Vs.

There are multiple pieces of evidence proving the harmlessness of AI. Anjali andKaren state that AI is completely safe. Anjali and Karen* are two scientists whoconducted an experiment to check whether this world domination theory is true. Their research has concluded the AI do not impose a great threat on the safety

and posterity of mankind.So who would you vote for??

* Anjali and Karen are two of the most brilliant scientists to walk this earth. They have tons of experience…..

STRONG RESEARCH

VS.

UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINIONS



You would want to back up your information as much as possible to gainmore information that could assist with ‘destroying’ your opponent’s

arguments.

Would you trust someone with 6 reliable articles to back up their informationof 1 person with information from a biased website.

For example: Having 6 articles from cancer centers disapproving the increaseof cancer risk will destroy an argument with only 1 article, that too an article

from a PRO-LIFE organization.

BACKING UP INFORMATION



The Databases have more reliable articles because they regularly conductevaluations. This filters out all the opinionated and biased articles and keep

the one with facts.

Search engines such as Google do not conduct these evaluations. They giveyou all the information available even if it is biased or untrue.

This limits the efficiency of Google.

DATABASES AND SEARCH ENGINES



Wikis and Blogs are not fact based. Anyone can write and answer questions inon these sites. But this doesn’t not mean these sites should not be used at all.

They can be used to gain a basic understanding of the subject. For example

you could learn about the earth’s composition and the internal workings of the earth by using these websites. But you should not use the information andanswers on these websites as your sole research for that topic.

WIKIS AND BLOGS



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