Read the following paragraph and answer the questions after the paragraph.
Television does not satisfy, or else why would the viewer continue to watch hour after hour, day after day? “The measure of health,” writes Lawrence Kubie, “is flexibility… and especially the freedom to cease when sated.” But the television viewer can never be sated with his television experiences—they do not provide the true nourishment that satiation requires—and thus he finds that he cannot stop watching.
—Marie Winn
1. What is the paragraph’s topic sentence? Does Winn state her opinion about a certain issue? Is this opinion debatable?
2. Whom do you think the author is addressing in this paragraph? How did you come to this conclusion?
3. What evidence does the paragraph provide to support the topic sentence? How would you classify it?
Evidence Type
4. How is the evidence in this paragraph organized: general to particular, particular to general, from one extreme to another?
1. “Television does not satisfy, or else why would the viewer continue to watch hour after hour, day after day?” Winn states her opinion about television watching, and her opinion is debatable.
2. The author is probably addressing people who watch a lot of television.
3. Evidence
Type
people watch TV
fact
people are not satisfied
fact
quotation
statement from authority
satiation requires true nourishment
fact
4. General to particular
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