Sometimes it is perfectly acceptable to use quotations in your editorial (though far fewer than you would in a news or feature story). If there is an expert whose statement(s) support your claim, you may want to cite that expert.
Using your own sample argument, use an expert for support by commenting below.
Example: According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, “While much tap water is indeed risky, having compared available data, we conclude that there is no assurance that bottled water is any safer than tap water.”
Using your own sample argument, use an expert for support by commenting below.
According to the National Swine Flu Awareness Program Staff, "Swine Flu is the single, most contagious virus that people must protect themselves from."
ReplyDeleteAccording to Broome County Sheriff Jeff Harder, "You're not concentrating because your mind is thinking about what you're typing out and what's the reply going to be back and {cut to} you could have a very serious accident."
ReplyDeleteAccording to Dr. Jane Martin, an advocate from the National Health Care Optimists Society, health care is essential for the well being of our future.
ReplyDeleteYou can cry. You can get hurt. But the matter of fact is that it can kill your love ones. The ones that you cherish the most. (Appeal to emotion because I switched appeal with cite an expert).
ReplyDeleteDave Warner, of the National Pork Producers Council. "I think the economics right now is being driven by fear of what could happen, rather that what really is happening."
ReplyDelete"I think this will be difficult to deal with," Lloyd Johnston, Ph.D., research professor at the University of Michigan's Population Studies Center said about drug prevention.
ReplyDeleteFamous musician Frank Zappa once said, "The United States is a nation of laws--badly written, and randomly enforced."
ReplyDeleteZappa's critical statement is true to an extent. Each year laws are passed and statutes are created to protect bystanders from the harms of secondhand smoking...yet so many will end up useless because of their lack of detail and enforcement.
Take for example research provided by the American Lung Association. In 2007, California passed numerous codes prohibiting the usage of tobacco products in all public places. Yet at the end of a code that regulated tobacco usage in health facilities, it said: "Patients in long term health care facilities are exempt from this law." Ultimately, it was still okay to smoke in a health facility, in front of patients--in front of people trying to recover!
The normal flu is much more deadly than the swine flu. The Centers for Disease Control estimates 36,000 people die annually in the United States from the regular flu, as compared to the (approximately) 948 people who die of the swine flu every year.
ReplyDeleteEszter Haragiiti of Princeton says, "Students have to be educated about how much information they can give out about themselves to the unknown public".
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ReplyDelete"MVHS holds Every 15 Minutes once every four years so that each class experiences it once during their high school career— the last time occurred in May 2005...Planning for this year’s event began in September 2008, spearheaded by Moore in collaboration with Satterlee. After over half a year of planning, MVHS hosted the Every 15 Minutes program this week."
According to the Greenpeace report, "at least 267 marine species had suffered from some kind of ingestion or entanglement with marine debris."
ReplyDeleteAccording to the Nation Health Association, 5% of the people that die, die because they can not get to the hospital. But 28% of the people die because they can not afford the health care.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the Free Software Foundation, the iPhone may provide supposedly more freedom, but the cost of convenience is well over 500 dollars a month. You're already paying for the internet service, car, TV, and etc. Don't add an extra bill for things you already have.
ReplyDelete"To simplify gum removal, the best defense is a good offense. All of our operators carry a scraper. That way when you’re dust mopping or even walking around the site, you don’t just walk by the gum," says Wayne Simmonds, CBSE, chairman of the board, FBG Service Corp., Omaha, Neb.
ReplyDeleteAccording to child psychologist and lecturer at Florida Atlantic University, Dr. Bert Diament states that "Studies show that we make up our minds about people within seven seconds of meeting them. So if Sean tipped over the trash can and spilled paint before circle time, you may have a tough time getting that image of him out of your head." Similarly, when a student presents a teacher with a present, the student is reflected in a positive light, and can be very difficult to ignore.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Dr. John Kim, students who use the school library more often generally do better than those who don't.
ReplyDeleteMs.CG, who teaches rush and apush, had to tell her apush kids who would be missing the class final to come in and take it the day before the AP exam. "Since there's no new schedule, students who are missing the class final have to come in and take it on their own time. It is a really stressful time with the test right around the corner and puts a lot of pressure on the students".
ReplyDeleteAccording Dawn Sumner, University of California, Davis, geology professor, instructional videos on Youtube (and educational spin-off Schooltube) can be beneficial for students. "Outreach is really one of the benefits of YouTube," Sumner said. "College classes and university-produced videos can provide a source of information that's reliable and has the quality guarantee to younger students and their teachers."
ReplyDeleteJohn F. Kennedy told America, "My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
ReplyDeleteAccording to Monique Orozco, "While many people do not see the harm in constant tardies and truancies, they go on your permanent record, amount to bigger consequences, and cumulatively take away from the student's educational hours.
ReplyDeleteUniversal health care will allow patients to receive the proper medical treatment they need, without the problem of money getting in the way. George Halvorson, the chairman of Kaiser Permanente, wrote in his book, Healthcare Reform Now!, 2007, "With universal healthcare, patients will be able to have certain conditions, such as cancer, treated earlier on, thus increasing the rates of recovery."
ReplyDeleteAccording to pastor David Huang, "I've seen traditions hold families together, but even more break them apart. If it works with this century, keep it, but if it's only causing arguments and anger, let them go."
ReplyDeleteAccording to Suicide.org, "We need to implement suicide prevention programs in all of our high schools. And we need to act now. Suicide is always urgent."
ReplyDeleteAccording to www.killthecalls.com, the best way to deal with a telemarketer is to allow them to send you an e-mail, so you will "have information to track them down" and "file a complaint." Don't swear--it doesn't work.
ReplyDeleteDriving hybrids can even gain us money and jobs. According to President Obama, "In the process [of creating fuel-efficient cars], we will put Americans to work in new jobs that pay well and can’t be outsourced."
ReplyDeleteAs Bernard Mandeville says, "Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive."
ReplyDeleteLead researcher Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, a professor at the university's School of Public Health says, "Teenage girls who are concerned about their weight are at great risk for unhealthy weight control behaviors."
ReplyDeleteAccording to Dr. Mike Ryan, "The World Health Organization also decided against a full pandemic alert, but that doesn't mean people can relax."
ReplyDeleteDr. Adam Khoo, author of the book '6 Ways to Achieve Anything', says that the tolerance to bear failure and unexpected outcomes is the first step to success.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Barack Obama, "All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster." We Started this disaster, it's our responsibility to stop it.
ReplyDeleteAccording to www.articlebase.com, "The good news is that the recently completed Diabetes Prevention Program study conclusively showed that people with pre-diabetes can prevent the development of type 2 diabetes by making changes in their diet and increasing their level of physical activity."
ReplyDeleteOne must burn more calories than they take in. According to John Messmer, "Someone who does not move around much all day might only needs about 13 calories per pound and someone who moves all day might use 17 or more calories per pound". Thus, depending on your calorie intake and weight you can determine the amount of exercise needed to lose weight.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Dr. Philys of the university of Michigan, while pig dissection can be very useful in learning physiology and well as anatomy in high school, students who are apprehensive of the dissection should not be forced to do it, and can learn just as well from a book.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Dr. Brian K. Payne, all group work should still be graded individually, allowing for a proper grade as well as a chance for students to learn the benefits and importance of teamwork.
ReplyDelete"Health benefits of eating breakfast include an increased ability to use your brain..." according to Wendy Pan.
ReplyDeleteSanrio Marketing Manager Bill Hensley explains how the Hello Kitty is created.
ReplyDelete"We look at what's going on in our customers' life cycle, and we design products that make sense for that," Hensley said. These Hello Kitty's are designed to help protect its owners life cycle.
According to the National Sleep Foundation, "Based on current data, we think that most teens need on the order of 9-plus hours nightly to have optimal sleep. The NSF poll data indicate that most teens fall short of this goal, many by a considerable amount."
ReplyDelete"Metaphysics, therefore, teaches us how we may govern our bodies, our world, and our happiness by the thoughts we think; for it declares that man reproduces the creative method and that what is true in the macrocosm or universe is true in the microcosm or individual, that thoughts become things. And it claims that by acquiring the knowledge of the law, and by working in harmony with it, man can be freed from limitations of all kinds." Says Fenwicke L. Holmes
ReplyDeleteEast San Jose high schools are all affected by the budget cuts in sports. "My family is low-income, and $200 is too much money. I'm worried because I want to go to college, and I need to participate in sports so I have a strong application," said Tuyet Dang, a junior who plays badminton at Oak Grove High School.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Clyde Frazier, a political-science professor at Meredith College, "Young voters often pay lower taxes because they earn less, have no children, and don't usually own homes." Since they have less on the line when it comes time to vote, many choose not to.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Wayne Sage, a contributing editor to Human Behavior magazine, "more children under the age of five die at the hands of their own parents than are killed by tuberculosis, whooping cough, polio, measles, diabetes, rheumatic fever and hepatitis combined."
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