Analyzing and Evaluating Arguments

Question 1

two

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I: Information is sometimes shared on social media before it is released by traditional media.; N: News organizations must compete with one another and with social media to reach audiences.

Question 2

Read the excerpt from "The Role of Social Media in the Arab Uprisings" by Heather Brown, Emily Guskin, and Amy Mitchell.Twitter, Facebook and other new media offer ways for the Arab-American news media to reach audiences, but also pose a threat to smaller outlets. In addition to keeping up with the online presence of larger news organizations, Arab-American media are forced to compete with user-generated content that is rapidly available to audiences. The utility of social media in accessing inf

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T: The authors effectively use verifiable information and a quotation from an expert to support their claim.

Question 3

two

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t: the explanation that most Egyptians do not use the technology; t: the fact that information from bit.ly links was shared around the world

Question 4

Read the excerpt from "The Role of Social Media in the Arab Uprisings" by Heather Brown, Emily Guskin, and Amy Mitchell.Twitter, Facebook and other new media offer ways for the Arab-American news media to reach audiences, but also pose a threat to smaller outlets. In addition to keeping up with the online presence of larger news organizations, Arab-American media are forced to compete with user-generated content that is rapidly available to audiences. The utility of social media in accessing inf

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S: Social media poses a threat to more traditional media outlets.

Question 5

Read the excerpt from "The Role of Social Media in the Arab Uprisings" by Heather Brown, Emily Guskin, and Amy Mitchell.Almost immediately after the Arab uprisings began, there was debate over the role and influence of social media in the ouster of Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and the imminent overthrow of [Egyptian president Hosni] Mubarak . In covering what some deemed the Facebook or Twitter revolutions, the media focused heavily on young protesters mobilizing in the streets in

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S: Social media affected the Arab uprisings, but its impact was not what the news media originally thought it was.

Question 6

Which type of evidence is an example of testimony?

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e: eyewitness accounts

Question 7

best

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T: The authors use a quotation from an expert to support the argument that social media has been both helpful and hazardous for the Arab American news media.; T: The authors use examples of different types of media to support the argument that social media has changed how the Arab American news media operate.

Question 8

What is the claim in an argumentative text?

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t: the statement that takes a position on an issue or controversy

Question 9

three

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t: tweets (Twitter messages) describing the overthrow of Ben Ali at the time it happened; j: journal entries from a student describing how social media helped him join a protest; q: quotations from experts on social media use during uprisings within the Arab world

Question 10

three

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r: research related to the popular use of social media in Egypt; a: a statistic supporting the claim that social media use in Egypt is not widespread; a: an example that compares how traditional media and social media handle a news story

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