Test I. IDENTIFICATION Directions: Identify the term being described from the statement below. write T if
the statement is true and write F if otherwise. Write your answers in the spaces
provided before each number.

1. Position Paper reflects series of statements for or against something that
involves logic, research evidence and assertion to make persuasion.
2. As a type of paper, position paper should not only criticize but should
also express challenges.
3. A manifesto can be written by anybody regardless of status.
4. A social issue can be a good subject of an essay.
5. The body of an essay is where evidences are stated to prove a claim.
6. Conclusions in an essay are more detailed than the body.
7. Evidences in an argument add weight to a claim.
8. An emphatic statement at the end of an argument will influence
adjudicators / judges in a debate to merit the speaker's claim.
9. Gathering of evidences need not be done as long as words are chosen
properly to express strong claim.
10. Thorough investigation about a subject must be observed in any essay.​

Make sure the topic of your persuasive essay is not a.something someone else is writing about b.a fact c.something you have written about before

Wha is the topic discussed in “lifeboat ethics” ?

Which two passages in this excerpt from the death of ivan illych does leo tolstoy use to suggest that ivan ilych feels like his life is slipping away from him? "what's the use? it makes no difference," he said to himself, staring with wide-open eyes into the darkness. "death. yes, death. and none of them knows or wishes to know it, and they have no pity for me. now they are playing." (he heard through the door the distant sound of a song and its accompaniment.) "it's all the same to them, but they will die too! fools! i first, and they later, but it will be the same for them. and now they are merry . . the beasts! " anger choked him and he was agonizingly, unbearably miserable. "it is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror! " he raised himself. "something must be wrong. i must calm myself—must think it all over from the beginning." and he again began thinking. "yes, the beginning of my illness: i knocked my side, but i was still quite well that day and the next. it hurt a little, then rather more. i saw the doctors, then followed despondency and anguish, more doctors, and i drew nearer to the abyss. my strength grew less and i kept coming nearer and nearer, and now i have wasted away and there is no light in my eyes.