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Zorluk: OrtaEstablishing Introductions and Thesis Statements

The following is an excerpt from a passage about the history of climate science.

In 1856, Eunice Foote, an American scientist and women's rights campaigner, conducted a series of simple experiments that would help shape modern climate science. Using two glass cylinders, a thermometer, and an air pump, Foote compared the heating effects of solar radiation on different gases. She discovered that a cylinder filled with moist air and carbon dioxide became significantly warmer than one filled with common air, and that it took much longer to cool down.

[1] __________________________________________________ Her paper, 'Circumstances affecting the Heat of the Sun's Rays,' was presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. However, because women were not permitted to speak at the conference, the paper was read aloud by Joseph Henry, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Despite the significance of her findings, Foote's contribution to climate science went largely unnoticed for more than a century, with credit for demonstrating the greenhouse effect typically assigned to John Tyndall, who published a more detailed study three years later.

Which of the following sentences, if inserted at the beginning of the second paragraph (at [1]), would provide the most effective and grammatically correct introduction to that paragraph?

  1. A
    Because she wanted to share her findings with other researchers.
  2. B
    Foote compiled her data; which she hoped to present at a major science conference.
  3. After completing her experiments, Foote set out to share her findings with the scientific community.Cevap
  4. D
    The scientific community, which included many prominent researchers of the era, are not ready to accept her findings.

Cevap

After completing her experiments, Foote set out to share her findings with the scientific community.
The sentence stating that Foote set out to share her findings with the scientific community is correct because it is grammatically complete and logically introduces the topic of presenting her paper at a scientific meeting.

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1
Analyze the context of the second paragraph.
The second paragraph discusses how Foote's paper was presented at a scientific conference, how it had to be read by a male secretary, and how her work went unrecognized.
An effective introduction must establish the paragraph's focus on sharing her findings and the reception she received.
2
Evaluate the grammar of the options.
Identify that several options contain grammatical errors: one is a fragment beginning with a subordinating conjunction, one incorrectly uses a semicolon before a dependent clause, and one has a subject-verb agreement error with the collective noun 'community'.
ACT English questions require sentences to be both rhetorically effective and grammatically correct.
3
Select the option that is both grammatically correct and logically fits the paragraph.
The sentence describing Foote setting out to share her findings is a complete, grammatically correct sentence that smoothly transitions into the details about presenting her paper.
This option satisfies both the structural and grammatical requirements of the passage.

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Establishing Introductions and Thesis Statements
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