The methods include: Facts and statistics, examples, and illustration, process, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, classification and analysis, definition, and analogy.
Rereading difficult passages many times AND looking up each unfamiliar word in a dictionary
A thesis statement is generally the first few sentences of your writing to help get your readers interested in what they'll be reading. So, if your thesis is unclear, they'll be confused about what's going on before anything even happens.
Answer:
D. I see three new students on the roster: Brown, Brian; Jones, Janis; and Monroe, Max.
Explanation:
In this situation, due to commas using two functions may lead to confusion, a semicolon is used as a more powerful comma.
A does not use this, so <em>it could be misread easily</em>.
B puts the semicolon where only a comma could suffice, so <em>it separates the entity "Brown, Brian" and turns it into "Brown" "Brian, Jones"</em>.
C works correctly <em>until the oxford comma, which throws up the entity grouping</em>.
D is the only one that perfectly groups the three entities.
