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On Effectiveness
Please read each the following sentences carefully and decide whether it is effective. 
If it is not, please rewrite it to make it better. 
(1)    Our fifth floor patient, in room 6, is a mentally ill patient.
(2)    The best teachers help each student to become a better student both academically and emotionally. 
(3)    Black slaves were called or stereotyped as lazy even though they were the main labor force of the South.
(4)    In my opinion, our current policy in Central America is misguided on several counts.
(5)    The secretary is responsible for monitoring and balancing the budget for travel, contract services, and
(6)    In order that I may increase my expertise in the area of delivery of services to clients, I feel that
        participation in this
        conference will be beneficial. 
(7)    When our progenitors reach their silver haired and golden years, we frequently ensepulcher them in
        homes for
        senescent  beings as if they were already among the deceased.
(8)    A scholarship athlete must be as concerned about his academic performance as he is about his athletic
(9)    The apartment that we moved into it needed many repairs.

On Logic
Please decide whether each of the following sentences is logical; of it is not, correct it.
(1)    It was possible to feed a family of four on $70 a week before Governor Bebawi took office and drove up
        food prices.
(2)    This country has been run too long by old, out of touch, entrenched politicians protecting the special
        interests that got them  elected.
(3)    Our war on drugs has not worked.  Either we should legalize drugs or we should turn the drug war over to
        our armed forces and let them fight it.
(4)    If the president had learned the lesson of Vietnam, he would realize that sending U.S. troops into a
        foreign country can only end in disaster.
(5)    College professors tend to be sarcastic.  Three of my five professors this semester make sarcastic
On Thesis Statements
Please decide whether each of these thesis statements is effective and identify the reason, i.e. too broad, too narrow, announcement, includes more than one idea.
(1)    Computers have changed our society.
(2)    I am going to write on my ideas concerning "F" grades.
(3)    The way our society treats elderly people is unbelievable.
(4)    The strangest teacher I ever had taught me a lesson I will never forget.
(5)    People who eat a lot of red meat are almost three times more likely to get colon cancer than people who
        eat mostly fish and chicken.
(6)    My last car was dependable, but many American cars are poorly made.
(7)    The first car that I owned was a Ford.
(8)    The subject of this essay is daily prayer in our public schools.
(9)    Soap operas show many stereotyped characters, although they also portray real problems in American
(10)   Action must be taken against drugs.