Rhetorical Synthesis Lv Medium (Part2)

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• In the art world, the term biennial traditionally refers to an art exhibition that takes place every two years in a single location.
• Such biennials are held in New York, Berlin, and Venice.
• In 2006, artists Ed Gomez and Luis Hernandez founded the unconventional MexiCali Biennial.
• The MexiCali Biennial hosts exhibitions in different venues on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
• The MexiCali Biennial has taken place on an uneven schedule, with exhibitions in 2006, 2009–10, 2013, and 2018–20.

The student wants to emphasize a difference between the MexiCali Biennial and traditional biennials. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Cecilia Vicuña is a multidisciplinary artist.
• In 1971, her first solo art exhibition, Pinturas, poemas y explicaciones, was shown at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago, Chile.
• Her poetry collection Precario/Precarious was published in 1983 by Tanam Press.
• Her poetry collection Instan was published in 2002 by Kelsey St. Press.
• She lives part time in Chile, where she was born, and part time in New York.

The student wants to introduce the artist’s 1983 poetry collection. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Planetary scientists classify asteroids based on their composition.
• C-type asteroids are composed primarily of carbon.
• They account for roughly 75 percent of known asteroids.
• S-type asteroids are primarily made up of silicate minerals.
• They account for roughly 17 percent of known asteroids.

The student wants to emphasize a difference between C-type and S-type asteroids. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• In geology, an Aeolian landform is one that has been created by the wind.
• In Greek mythology, Aeolus is the keeper of the winds.
• Aeolian landforms are created when the wind erodes, transports, or deposits material.
• A mushroom rock is a rock formation in which the top is wider than the base.
• A mushroom rock can be formed when the wind erodes the base and the top at different rates.

The student wants to provide an explanation and an example of Aeolian landforms. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Circular particle accelerators known as synchrotrons radiate energy in the form of light.
• Synchrotron light is among the brightest light ever produced.
• Synchrotron light is an ideal tool for researchers investigating the structure of matter.
• The first synchrotron created for the purpose of providing synchrotron light was built in 1968.
• It was called Tantalus and was housed near the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

The student wants to emphasize the location of the first synchrotron built to provide synchrotron light. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Physicist Muluneh Abebe was working on a garment suited for both warm and cold conditions.
• He analyzed the emissivity, or ability to emit heat, of the materials he planned to use.
• Abebe found that reflective metal fibers emitted almost no heat and had an emissivity of 0.02.
• He found that silicon carbide fibers absorbed large amounts of heat and had an emissivity of 0.74.
• The amount of heat a material absorbs is equal to the amount of heat it emits.

The student wants to contrast the emissivity of reflective metal fibers with that of silicon carbide fibers. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• The Haudenosaunee Confederacy is a nearly 1,000-year-old alliance of six Native nations in the northeastern US.
• The members are bound by a centuries-old agreement known as the Great Law of Peace.
• Historian Bruce Johansen is one of several scholars who believe that the principles of the Great Law of Peace influenced the US Constitution.
• This theory is called the influence theory.
• Johansen cites the fact that Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson both studied the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

The student wants to present the influence theory to an audience unfamiliar with the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Claude McKay (1889–1948) was a Jamaican American writer.
•  Songs of Jamaica (1912) and Constab Ballads (1912) are two acclaimed poetry collections that McKay published while living in Jamaica.
• McKay moved to Harlem in New York City in 1914.
• He is best known as a poet and novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, a literary and cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s.
• His most famous works include the poetry collection Harlem Shadows (1922) and the novel Home to Harlem (1928).

The student wants to emphasize Claude McKay’s accomplishments before moving to Harlem. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Architect Julian Abele studied Gregorian and neo-Gothic architecture in Europe.
• Abele worked for an architecture firm that was hired in 1924 to design buildings for Duke University’s new campus.
• Most of the buildings on Duke’s campus were designed in the Gregorian or neo-Gothic architectural styles.
• At the time, Abele was not formally credited with designing the buildings.
• Based on the buildings’ architectural styles, historians believe Abele designed most of the campus buildings.

The student wants to specify why historians believe Abele designed most of Duke’s campus buildings. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• When medical students mention their patients on social media, they may violate patient confidentiality.
• Terry Kind led a study to determine how many medical schools have student policies that mention social media use.
• Kind and her team reviewed 132 medical school websites, examining publicly available student policies.
• Only thirteen medical schools had guidelines that explicitly mention social media, and only five defined what constitutes acceptable social media use.

The student wants to emphasize the study’s methodology. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• A marathon is a long-distance running race that is 26.2 miles long.
• An ultramarathon is a long-distance running race of more than 26.2 miles.
• The Kepler Challenge is a one-day, 37.3-mile ultramarathon in New Zealand.
• The Spreelauf is a six-day, 261-mile ultramarathon in Germany.

The student wants to make a generalization about ultramarathons. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• From Earth, all the meteors in a meteor shower appear to originate from a single spot in the sky.
• This spot is called the meteor shower’s radiant.
• The Perseid meteor shower is visible in the northern hemisphere in July and August.
• Like many meteor showers, it is named for the location of its radiant.
• Its radiant is located within the constellation Perseus.

The student wants to explain the origin of the Perseid meteor shower’s name. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Gaspar Enriquez is an artist.
• He specializes in portraits of Mexican Americans.
• A portrait is an artistic representation of a person.
• Enriquez completed a painting of the sculptor Luis Jimenez in 2003.
• He completed a drawing of the writer Rudolfo Anaya in 2016.

The student wants to emphasize a difference between the two portraits. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Wool is a natural—and economically important—fiber that is obtained from animals like sheep.
• Australia is a leading producer of wool.
• The thickness of wool fibers varies across sheep breeds.
• Merino sheep produce fine wool that is used for apparel.
• Rambouillet sheep produce fine wool that is used for apparel.
• Romney sheep produce thick wool that is used for rugs and blankets.

The student wants to emphasize how Romney wool differs from Merino and Rambouillet wool. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Mexican tetras are a fish species with two distinct populations.
• Surface-dwelling tetras live on the surface and are able to see.
• Cave-dwelling tetras live in total darkness and have lost the ability to see.
• Cave-dwelling tetras have asymmetrical skulls with more sensory receptors on one side than the other.
• These receptors help cave-dwelling tetras navigate in darkness.

The student wants to emphasize a difference between surface-dwelling and cave-dwelling tetras. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Some US reformers sought to improve society in the 1800s by building utopias.
• A utopia is a community intended to represent a perfect society based on a specific set of principles.
• One such community was Brook Farm near Boston, Massachusetts.
• It was founded in 1841 by writer George Ripley.
• Ripley wrote in a letter that his goal for Brook Farm was “to guarantee the highest mental freedom, by providing all with labor, adapted to their tastes and talents, and securing to them the fruits of their industry.”

The student wants to explain the goal of Brook Farm using a quotation from George Ripley. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• In 1999, astronomer Todd Henry studied the differences in surface temperature between the Sun and nearby stars.
• His team mapped all stars within 10 parsecs (approximately 200 trillion miles) of the Sun.
• The surface temperature of the Sun is around 9,800°F, which classifies it as a G star.
• 327 of the 357 stars in the study were classified as K or M stars, with surface temperatures under 8,900°F (cooler than the Sun).\
• 11 of the 357 stars in the study were classified as A or F stars, with surface temperatures greater than 10,300°F (hotter than the Sun).

The student wants to emphasize how hot the Sun is relative to nearby stars. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• In 1851, German American artist Emanuel Leutze painted Washington Crossing the Delaware.
• His huge painting (149 × 255 inches) depicts the first US president crossing a river with soldiers in the Revolutionary War.
• In 2019, Cree artist Kent Monkman painted mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People): Resurgence of the People.
• Monkman’s huge painting (132 × 264 inches) was inspired by Leutze’s.
• It portrays Indigenous people in a boat rescuing refugees.

The student wants to emphasize a similarity between the two paintings. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• In the early 1960s, the US had a strict national-origins quota system for immigrants.
• The number of new immigrants allowed from a country each year was based on how many people from that country lived in the US in 1890.
• This system favored immigrants from northern Europe.
• Almost 70% of slots were reserved for immigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, and Germany.
• The 1965 Hart-Celler Act abolished the national-origins quota system.

The student wants to present the significance of the Hart-Celler Act to an audience unfamiliar with the history of US immigration. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?