Read the first paragraph from an article in the local online newspaper. Local businesswoman Inés Garcia-Ruiz is joining the race
for the state senate seat that is soon to be vacated by retiring senator Benjamin Hall. A long-time resident of this community, Garcia-Ruiz says that, if she is elected, she will "dive into projects that aid low-income families.” This should be obvious to most constituents because she is well known for her impressive charity work. Time and time again, she has worked tirelessly to improve the lives of those living in poverty in our community. What is the best way to improve objectivity in the paragraph? by removing the reference to Garcia-Ruiz being a local businesswoman by removing idioms, such as “dive into” and “time and time again” by eliminating the reference to projects that aid low-income families by eliminating emotional language used to describe the charity work
D). By eliminating emotional language used to describe the charity work.
Explanation:
Objectivity is characterized as the factual and truthful representation of a situation. Such a description is free from any kind of involvement of author's personal opinions, bias, or feelings.
The most appropriate way to enhance the objectivity in the given paragraph is 'to eliminate the emotional language that has been employed to describe the charity work' as <u>the use of descriptive words like 'tirelessly', 'obvious', 'impressive', etc. reflects author's personal opinion and prejudice towards Garcia Ruiz</u>. Thus, the removal of these words would <u>help offer an actual and objective description</u> of her work and leave it to the audience to decide rather than imposing a pre-defined opinion(of author's own) to them. Thus, <u>option D</u> is the correct answer.
