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Read this paragraph.
This paragraph is an example of point-by-point writing
because
Income is definitely something to consider when
choosing a career. Civil engineers earn a yearly median
income of $78,000, while pharmacists earn a yearly
median income of approximately $112,000. However,
there is more schooling involved with becoming a
pharmacist. Pharmacists must earn a four-year
professional degree in addition to a bachelor's degree,
and civil engineers need only have a four-year
bachelor's degree. Because I enjoy school and would
like to earn more money, I am leaning more heavily
toward becoming a pharmacist
it provides information about each career using
certain criteria
it orders details about each career from most to
least important
it compares two different careers using one point at
a time
oit describes one career fully before moving on to the
next careg
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Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.