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TSI Writing: Recogizing Credible Sources 3 Views
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Which of the following phrases could be considered a credible source if added to the beginning of sentence 4?
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Okay see reading stuffers next up here in this awesome
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piece of writing that we're analyzing here all together If
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there's one thing we live in a stress Yeah We're
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skimming Managing stress whether short or long term can depend
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upon the source of the factors All right well the
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impact stress on day life only unique and memorable Okay
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in contact which of the following phrases could be considered
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a credible source if added to the beginning of sentence
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force aware sentence florets right there here's The key phrase
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thinking ratting out the key to managing stress is in
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our ability to identify its causes Alright on contact which
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could be considered a credible source or what's a source
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here Well who should we believe We prefer the clinical
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titles of a registered nurse who has a phd to
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boot Yeah That's pretty good there right Hard to do
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A statement coming from anna's endow an employee of a
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college of health sciences would certainly set the reader's minds
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at ease and make them less suspicious of the information
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quoted like it's a credible source like an actual expert
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in the field Not like you know in the political
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stuff you read the new york times or in what
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you read on the drudge website and that kind of
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stuff for left and right highly biased things shows we
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look through there That's got to be it it's a
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and the loser bull here it's ah well pretty unclear
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stuff unless local dog population starts getting frazzled overwork reports
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and stressing about having to drop the kids off at
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ballet and karate Well we're guessing that a veterinarian it's
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not the most credible source to use here in paragraph
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to get rid of b i'm doing a quick little
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survey of a bunch of people who experience stress isn't
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the most credible way tio go about supporting evidence either
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Our gal monica may have first hand experience with stress
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but well she's only a patient not a licensed physician
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or published academic on the topic and readers are less
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inclined to believe non experts So get rid of the
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others It's a uh going with anna anna dot com
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