What is the purpose of background context in an intro?

To provide a brief summary of the book, author and text

Revise: People communicate differently on the phone, through texting, or in online posts.

People communicate when speaking on the phone, texting and writing online.

Combine:Social MEDIA promotes short, superficial connections. (4) It is very popular with teens today.

Social media, most popular with teens today, promotes shorter connections.

What is the purpose of a thesis statement?

It is the central idea of the paper with reasons

What should you always do in your analysis?

Explain what your evidence is showing and how it connects to your claim

It is the background info that tells us about the author and book

Revise + Combine : And because he disliked "Into the Wild," a best selling novel. He didn't complete his HW.

And since he disliked ITW, a best selling novel, he never completed HW.

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1
Edit the sentence: As the girl placed her homework in a purse, I couldn’t slightly help wondering if she'd lose it.
Change the comma to a period
Delete slightly
No Change Necessary
Change put to putting
2
What is the purpose of background context in an intro?
To tell why the topic is important
To provide a brief summary of the book, author and text
To make the reader interested in your topic
To explain your reasons
3
Revise: People communicate differently on the phone, through texting, or in online posts.
People communicate differently on the phone, through texting, online.
People communicate when speaking on the phone, texting and writing online.
No change needed
People communicate in person in one way, than on the phone or online.
4
Correct the Error: yes prep tends to be a rigorous school that pushes students to apply for college.
Add a comma after school
Capitalize Yes Prep
Capitalize college
No change needed
5
Fix the error: My mom went to target to pickup supplies for school, and she bought Starbucks for my dad.
Capitalize Target
Delete the comma
No change necessary
Capitalize dad
6
Fix the error: Romeo always shows the most growth in English class because they aren’t afraid to ask questions.
Change English to english
Change they to he
No change needed
Put a comma before because
7
Combine:Social MEDIA promotes short, superficial connections. (4) It is very popular with teens today.
Social media promotes superficial connections, it's popular with teens.
Accurate response isn't listed
Social media, most popular with teens today, promotes shorter connections.
Social media promotes short, superficial connections is popular with teens.
8
What is the purpose of a thesis statement?
It engages the reader with a question
It is the central idea of the paper with reasons
It provides examples that support a claim
It provides brief background info about evidence
9
What should you always do in your analysis?
Provide background information about your text
Explain what your evidence is showing and how it connects to your claim
Wrap up your ideas
Introduce your claim
10
What is context?
It is the first sentence of a body paragraph
It is the brief background info that informs us about our text evidence
It is the background info that tells us about the author and book
The correct response isn't listed
11
Revise: My mom always dislikes when I don't finish their chores, so she takes away my phone when they aren't complete.
Change their to her
Remove the comma
Capitalize mom
No change necessary
12
Revise + Combine : And because he disliked "Into the Wild," a best selling novel. He didn't complete his HW.
And because ITW, which is a best-selling novel, he didn’t finish HW.
And since he disliked ITW, a best selling novel, he never completed HW.
No Change needed
And since he disliked ITW, a novel or something, that he didn't do HW.

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