What would you do during the brainstorming stage when writing an essay on an exciting journey? Support your paragraph with examples of brainstorming.

Constructed response paragraph: after reading “the case for short words,” do you think the author makes a convincing case that short words are effective? explain your answer and support it with evidence from the selection.

How might a reader find tables charts or graphs useful

Part b: which phrase from the text best support the answers to part a? a. “i don't want to talk to somebody when i go check in at an airport. i just either download the boarding pass to my phone or walk up to a kiosk and get it.” (paragraph 8) b. “you do not have to go far to find someone who disagrees with andrew mcafee, just around the corner to the office of another person at the same university.” (paragraph 11) c. “the set of things that machines do not do like humans is innumerable.” (paragraph 16) d. “you wonder if you're joining that long litany of voices who go down as having made the incorrect prediction one more time, but i think the facts are different this time.” (paragraph 23)