Question

If you were writing an essay on the positives and negatives of the rise of social media, which detail sentence below would most logically fit into your essay?
A) The internet is a wonderful place in which to do research because so much information is available just a few clicks away!
B) One of the most frustrating events of the modern age is coming home to find out that your wireless internet is down or disconnected.
C) An old-fashioned, hand-written letter can mean so much to a parent if you just take the time to sit down and write one from the heart.
D) Rather than making people more shallow, social media has politically and personally empowered many people who've never had a public voice before.

Answer 1

I suppose I'd pick D.

Answer 2

The detail sentence that would most logically fit into the essay is D) Rather than making people more shallow, social media has politically and personally empowered many people who've never had a public voice before.

Sentence D) is the most appropriate because it is closely related to the topic of the essay, which is the positives and negatives of the rise of social media. Sentence D) refers to something positive that social media has brought: the empowerment of the masses. On the other hand, B) and C) are not closely connected to the topic of the essay. Moreover, unlike A), sentence D) includes academic language and an appropriate register, which is highly important when writing an essay.