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- Greg Malivuk
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- Homework: Try to find the thesis statements of some magazine or website articles (editorials or opinion pieces) and predict the types of supporting details the rest of the articles will contain.
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- https://www.kibin.com/essay-writing-blog/thesis-statement-examples/
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- 1 - Vaccinations should be mandatory
- If you saw an article with these sentences at the beginning, what specific topics would you expect to read about in the article?
- MMR - Measles, Mumps, Rubella (related diseases that can be prevented with one vaccine)
- - Information about the 2014-15 measles outbreak in the US.
- - Other examples of diseases that can be prevented by vaccine.
- - Comparisons with countries like Saudi Arabia and Mexico, which have a very high vaccination rate and very low (or zero) incidence of these diseases.
- (http://www.cfr.org/interactives/GH_Vaccine_Map/#map)
- (unfounded = without basis in fact, “baseless”)
- - Evidence that the fears of parents are unfounded.
- (herd immunity = when enough people are vaccinated that a disease can’t spread among the people who aren’t)
- 8 (Medicinal) Marijuana should be legalized
- - Examples of people who’ve used medical marijuana, and how it helped them. (anecdotes)
- - Side effects and an argument for why the benefits outweigh them.
- - Research and statistics about the effects of medical marijuana use.
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