Which element of a persausive essay is best described as the authors main argument? a) counter claims b) reasons c) claims d) evidence

D) Evidence

Explanation:

The purpose of a persuasive essay is to persuade the reader to adopt the author’s point of view on some  issue. Strong evidential support will help achieve this goal. Verifiable and relevant facts and expert opinions backed up by statistics are good examples of evidence, which is best described as the author's main argument.    

motivation

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.