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Rhetorical Synthesis

Reading & Writing · Expression of Ideas · 103 questions · every one comes with a full explanation.

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  1. 1While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Organisms release cellular material into their environment by shedding substances such as hair or skin. The DNAMedium · Expression of Ideas
  2. 2While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Sam Maloof (1916–2009) was an American woodworker and furniture designer. He was the son of Lebanese immigrantsMedium · Expression of Ideas
  3. 3While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Species belonging to the Orchidaceae (orchid) family can be found in both tropical and temperate environments. Medium · Expression of Ideas
  4. 4While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Platinum is a rare and expensive metal. It is used as a catalyst for chemical reactions. Platinum catalysts typMedium · Expression of Ideas
  5. 5While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Allan Houser was a Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache sculptor, illustrator, and painter. Many of his sculptures feMedium · Expression of Ideas
  6. 6While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: In the midst of the US Civil War, Susie Taylor escaped slavery and fled to Union-army-occupied St. Simons IslanMedium · Expression of Ideas
  7. 7While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Cities tend to have a wide range of flowering vegetation in parks, yards, and gardens. This vegetation providesMedium · Expression of Ideas
  8. 8While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: In 2018 researchers Adwait Deshpande, Shreejata Gupta, and Anindya Sinha were observing wild macaques in India'Medium · Expression of Ideas
  9. 9While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: In 2013, archaeologists studied cat bone fragments they had found in the ruins of Quanhucun, a Chinese farming Medium · Expression of Ideas
  10. 10While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Muckrakers were journalists who sought to expose corruption in US institutions during the Progressive Era (1897Medium · Expression of Ideas
  11. 11While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: John Carver was one of the 41 signatories of the Mayflower Compact. The Mayflower Compact was a legal agreementMedium · Expression of Ideas
  12. 12While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Jordan Bennett is a Mi'Kmaq visual artist. The Mi'Kmaq are a First Nations people in North America. Bennett's pMedium · Expression of Ideas
  13. 13While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Marine biologist Camille Jazmin Gaynus studies coral reefs. Coral reefs are vital underwater ecosystems that prMedium · Expression of Ideas
  14. 14While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present is a history book by Ojibwe author DavidMedium · Expression of Ideas
  15. 15While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: In 2019, Emily Shepard and colleagues in the UK and Germany studied the effect of wind on auks' success in landMedium · Expression of Ideas
  16. 16While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: In 2020, theater students at Radford and Virginia Tech chose an interactive, online format to present a play abMedium · Expression of Ideas
  17. 17While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Soo Sunny Park is a Korean American artist who uses light as her primary medium of expression. She created her Medium · Expression of Ideas
  18. 18While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Bharati Mukherjee was an Indian-born author of novels and short stories. She published the novel The Holder of Medium · Expression of Ideas
  19. 19While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Severo Ochoa discovered the enzyme PNPase in 1955. PNPase is involved in both the creation and degradation of mMedium · Expression of Ideas
  20. 20While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that existed millions of years ago. In a 2021 study, Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan anaMedium · Expression of Ideas
  21. 21While 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 Medium · Expression of Ideas
  22. 22While 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.Medium · Expression of Ideas
  23. 23While 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 (149Medium · Expression of Ideas
  24. 24While 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 immigraMedium · Expression of Ideas
  25. 25While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Roughly 96% of Australia's estimated 200,000 animal species are invertebrates. Invertebrates of the order HymenMedium · Expression of Ideas
  26. 26While 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 repreMedium · Expression of Ideas
  27. 27While 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 leaMedium · Expression of Ideas
  28. 28While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Shaun Tan is an Australian author. In 2008, he published Tales from Outer Suburbia, a book of fifteen short stoMedium · Expression of Ideas
  29. 29While 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 anMedium · Expression of Ideas
  30. 30While 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 KMedium · Expression of Ideas
  31. 31While 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 runningMedium · Expression of Ideas
  32. 32While 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 Medium · Expression of Ideas
  33. 33While 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 emisMedium · Expression of Ideas
  34. 34While 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.Medium · Expression of Ideas
  35. 35While 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) areMedium · Expression of Ideas
  36. 36While 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 architecturMedium · Expression of Ideas
  37. 37While 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 explicMedium · Expression of Ideas
  38. 38While 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 Medium · Expression of Ideas
  39. 39While 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 keeMedium · Expression of Ideas
  40. 40While 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 Medium · Expression of Ideas
  41. 41While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Pinnipeds, which include seals, sea lions, and walruses, live in and around water. Pinnipeds are descended not Medium · Expression of Ideas
  42. 42While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit features two maps. The novel opens with a reproduction of the map that tMedium · Expression of Ideas
  43. 43While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Etel Adnan was a Lebanese American poet and artist known for making many leporellos. A leporello is an artist'sMedium · Expression of Ideas
  44. 44While 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 Medium · Expression of Ideas
  45. 45While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: The Pueblo of Zuni is located about 150 miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is the traditional home of thMedium · Expression of Ideas
  46. 46While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Ancient Native American and Australian Aboriginal cultures described the Pleiades star cluster as having seven Medium · Expression of Ideas
  47. 47While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Samuel Selvon was a Trinidadian author. The Lonely Londoners is one of his most celebrated novels. Selvon publiMedium · Expression of Ideas
  48. 48While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Seven species of sea turtle exist today. Five sea turtle species can be found in the Atlantic Ocean. One of thoMedium · Expression of Ideas
  49. 49While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Gravitational waves are powerful ripples that originate in deep space and eventually pass through Earth. The LaMedium · Expression of Ideas
  50. 50While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Most, but not all, of the Moon's oxygen comes from the Sun, via solar wind. Cosmochemist Kentaro Terada from OsMedium · Expression of Ideas
  51. 51While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: In the late 1890s, over 14,000 unique varieties of apples were grown in the US. The rise of industrial agricultMedium · Expression of Ideas
  52. 52While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Started in 1925, the Scripps National Spelling Bee is a US-based spelling competition. The words used in the coMedium · Expression of Ideas
  53. 53While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gurnah was born in Zanzibar in East Africa anMedium · Expression of Ideas
  54. 54While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Las sergas de Esplandián was a novel popular in sixteenth-century Spain. The novel featured a fictional island Medium · Expression of Ideas
  55. 55While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Some sandstone arches in Utah's Arches National Park have been defaced by tourists' carvings. Park rangers can Medium · Expression of Ideas
  56. 56While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Just like states have state flags, some cities have city flags. Over one hundred US cities have redesigned theiMedium · Expression of Ideas
  57. 57While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Minnesota defines a lake as an inland body of water of at least 10 acres. Wisconsin's definition of a lake doesMedium · Expression of Ideas
  58. 58While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Chemical leavening agents cause carbon dioxide to be released within a liquid batter, making the batter rise asMedium · Expression of Ideas
  59. 59While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Maika'i Tubbs is a Native Hawaiian sculptor and installation artist. His work has been shown in the United StatMedium · Expression of Ideas