Read the following selection: the naismith award is given to the nation's best college basketball player. voters found room on their ballots this year for illinois guard frank williams. his team is not playing well, even though he is. they also nominated maryland's lonny baxter. baxter is playing well but averages only 15.3 points a game. the most surprising name on the list was kansas forward nick collison. collison is having a fine year for one of the nation's top teams. he is probably only his team's third-best player. for some reason, the sportswriters voting on this award did not pick kansas player kirk hinrich. that is hard to understand. it is possible that no one has been more valuable to the kansas team than him. this includes player of the year candidate drew gooden. hinrich is at least one of the twenty best players in college this season. he may even be one of the ten best. what is the main idea in this passage? question 16 options: a: kansas is one of the nation's top college basketball teams, and it has at least three great players on the team. b: the people who nominated players for the naismith award are actually sportswriters from around the country. c: kansas player kirk hinrich is one probably of the ten best college basketball players in the entire country. d: the list of players nominated for the naismith award is surprising because of who it includes and who is missing.

Write 2. using what you have learned about evidence, explanation, quotations, and paraphrase, write your body paragraphs in the space below. muir and wordsworth you will need to include at least one of each of the following: a direct quotation introduced with a complete sentence and a colon a direct quotation introduced with a signaling phrase and a comma a direct quotation that is introduced and explained in one sentence a paraphrased example an embedded quotation locate 3. within the body paragraphs of your essay, locate a direct quotation that is introduced with a complete sentence and a colon. copy and paste it here. be sure to include the entire sentence that contains the quotation as well as the explanation sentence(s) that come after it. 4. within the body paragraphs of your essay, locate a direct quotation that is introduced with a signaling phrase and a comma. copy and paste it here. be sure to include the entire sentence that contains the quotation as well as the explanation sentence(s) that come after it. 5. within the body paragraphs of your essay, locate a direct quotation that is introduced and explained in one sentence. copy and paste it here. 6. within the body paragraphs of your essay, locate one paraphrased example and copy and paste it here. 7. within the body paragraphs of your essay, locate one embedded quotation and copy and paste it here. 8. using techniques learned in this lesson, write the conclusion to your essay in the space below. 9. how did you connect your introduction and your conclusion? (did you use a similar technique, repetition of a significant word or phrase, explain. 10. copy and paste the words or sentence that signals closure of your essay. 11. copy and paste the sentences that synthesize your ideas. remember, synthesis combines the main ideas of your essay and comments on the significance of those ideas. 12. copy and paste the sentences that answer the question from the prompt: what conclusion or implications can you draw? (it is ok if you have these sentences as a part of your synthesis or challenge to your audience. include them here as well. it is also ok if these sentences are separate from those two elements.) 13. copy and paste the sentences from your conclusion that challenge your audience to think, feel, or do something.

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Which of the following does not apply to an informative text? select all that apply. persuasive techniques supporting evidence opinions narrative text