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Which of the following would NOT be an appropriate thesis statement for a rhetorical analysis paper? 

In an edited collection of essays titled Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory Between and Beyond Borders, edited by Lucy Bond and Jessica Rapson, there is an essay by Lucy Bond titled “Types of Transculturality: Narrative Frameworks and the Commemoration of 9/11.” On page 63 of her essay, Lucy Bond quotes Terri Tomsky who defines trauma economy as “a circuit of movement and exchange where traumatic memories ‘travel’ and are valued and revalued along the way.” What would be the right way to do to in-text citation if you wanted to use Tomsky’s definition as it is quoted in Bond’s essay?

Which of the following is NOT a strategy for drafting an introduction?

What sets an article in a scholarly journal apart from news or magazine articles? 

How should you format a source with two authors in an MLA Works Cited page? 

What is paragraph-level transition?

What fallacy is committed in this statement?  Our company had record profits last year, so our new product will definitely succeed.

In academic writing, what does it mean to agree with a difference? 

In MLA formatting, what does it mean for a source to be “self-contained”? 

In academic writing, what is a quotation sandwich?