Exercise: Researching a topic (autoscored)

Read each of the following writing assignments. Then select the choice that offers the better step for researching the topic.

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Assignment: Watch one of the film versions of Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights and analyze the motivations of Heathcliff.

Question

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Assignment: Find an article that argues for the health benefits or detriments of a vegetarian diet. Write a response to the article in which you explicitly refute at least one point on which you disagree with the writer, using evidence from a second source to support your views.

Question

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Assignment: Write an 8- to 10-page project that draws on at least three reputable sources and offers your own interpretation of why childhood obesity has become an epidemic in the United States.

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Assignment: Write a project discussing the effect that the 1925 Scopes trial had on science education in U.S. public schools.

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Assignment: Discuss the political satire in Book I of Gulliver’s Travels, including Jonathan Swift’s attacks on important English political figures of the day.

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