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Review: Purpose, Structure and Claims in Nonfiction

Apply distinguish an author’s purpose, match a structural transition, identify a supporting statement’s type, read a graphic qualifier using supplied texts and original responses.

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Unit review questions
1. Aim: explain folding steps. Transition: as a result. Support: Lee reports the crease felt stiff. Graphic note: Tuesday morning only. Which purpose is directly stated by the supplied excerpt?
Need a hint?
  • Should often signals persuasion here.
  • All factual sentences are not complete process explanations.
2. Aim: explain folding steps. Transition: as a result. Support: Lee reports the crease felt stiff. Graphic note: Tuesday morning only. Which relation does the supplied transition signal?
Need a hint?
  • For instance introduces an example.
  • However does not mean because.
3. Aim: explain folding steps. Transition: as a result. Support: Lee reports the crease felt stiff. Graphic note: Tuesday morning only. What kind of support is supplied?
Need a hint?
  • Units help identify a measurement.
  • Calling something proven is not evidence by itself.
4. Aim: explain folding steps. Transition: as a result. Support: Lee reports the crease felt stiff. Graphic note: Tuesday morning only. Which limitation is explicitly stated for the graphic?
Need a hint?
  • A chart note is part of the evidence.
  • No stated limitation does not mean none could exist.

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Use the skills in a new task

Make a short complete response demonstrating the four skills in this unit. Write an explanatory paragraph using this fictional record: three paper hinges, widths 2, 3 and 4 cm; each folded once on Monday. Include a process transition and measured detail. Then write a persuasive sentence separately and identify the small sample and date limit. Longer writing targets in optional extensions can be completed in a later session.

Work on paper or in your own document. Explain the choices you made.

  • Use the excerpt’s stated aim and actual language. A topic alone does not determine whether the writer explains or persuades.
  • Read the exact transition and explain what it tells about the second idea relative to the first.
  • Read what the statement actually provides. Do not turn one person’s report into a measurement of everyone.
  • Read the supplied note alongside the chart. State exactly that limitation without inventing a different defect.
Compare with a model response

Three paper hinges had widths 2, 3 and 4 cm. First each hinge folded once on Monday. These are measured widths and a reported process, not evidence of later durability. My persuasive sentence is: We should record more bends because one fold does not show long-term performance. The observation covers three hinges on Monday; it does not establish how all paper hinges behave.

A different response can also meet the criteria. Compare the evidence and reasoning, rather than copying the wording.