DOCUMENT ANALYSIS ACTIVITY

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DOCUMENT ANALYSIS ACTIVITY

This directive was sent to the members of a Montana government department. The questions below ask you to think about the process of writing persuasive directives.

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Question 17.1

1. How would you describe the tone used by the writer? Provide an example to support your claim.

Question 17.2

2. The writer presents examples of what he calls violations of the state travel policy. Do these examples provide solid evidence that violations of the policy have in fact occurred?

Question 17.3

3. How effectively has the writer encouraged his staff to abide by the travel policy? How might he improve the persuasiveness of the directive?

Additional Document Analysis Activities

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“Global Forest Change” Interactive Map
Hansen/UMD/Google/USGS/NASA. Hansen, M. C., P. V. Potapov, R. Moore, M. Hancher, S. A. Turubanova, A. Tyukavina, D. Thau, S. V. Stehman, S. J. Goetz, T. R. Loveland, A. Kommareddy, A. Egorov, L. Chini, C. O. Justice, and J. R. G. Townshend. 2013. “High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change.” Science 342 (15 November): 850–53. Data available on-line from: http://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest.
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High Plains Water-Level Monitoring Study
Source: United States Geological Survey, 2014: http://ne.water.usgs.gov/ogw/hpwlms/.