OK i read this whole book and i would be able to help you with the question but its incomplete you need to write the choices it gave you in order to pick.
The correct answer is D. High school graduates should be required to take a year off to pursue community service projects before entering college in order to increase their maturity and global awareness.
You want to create a comprehensive thesis statement that is going to cover all the information you are going to mention later on in the essay. The thesis statement is the most important sentence in an essay because it will give you the gist of what the entire essay is about, and here, that statement is sentence D.
As you identify and evaluate research sources, you must make accurate notes of information you think might be useful in your essay. There are many ways to take notes—from jotting down single words or phrases to photocopying entire articles. (For instruction on note-taking, see “Taking Good Research Notes” in How to Research Your Topic on this Web Site.)
There are three ways of incorporating source information into your own writing: summary, paraphrase, and direct quotation. When you summarize or paraphrase, you restate in your own words the idea(s) of another speaker or writer. When you quote, you reproduce the exact words of another speaker or writer.
Answer:
The details of this excerpt reveal the author’s purpose by
b. including facts and details about the topic.
Explanation:
This excerpt does not at any moment explain why the fans acted the way they did. We can only come up with assumptions, but nothing is clear. We are not told why they screamed those insults nor why they "feel the heat". We can eliminate option A.
Option C is also wrong since the author does not address the reader. There is also no encouraging of beliefs. We are told how the characters feel, but the author does not establish a sense of right and wrong, or of just and unjust.
Option D can also be eliminated. The author does not express any opinions concerning a topic. Again, we know how Neto and Andy feel about the fans' behavior, but that is all.
We are thus left with option B. The details the author gives us about the way the characters feel are enough for us to elicit the topic of the excerpt. It certainly concerns racial prejudice and how it affects people.
