Language, gender and culture What questions do Chira’s, Brooks’s, and Young’s titles raise for you?
What does Lorde’s title tell you about the topic and purpose of her chapter?
Read only the first two paragraphs of each of the four longer texts (Chira, Brooks, Young, and Lorde).
· What predictions can you make about each text based on the opening paragraphs?
· What questions do those paragraphs raise for you that you hope the reading will answer?
· Based on only the first two paragraphs of each text, what can you infer about the audiences and purposes each author seems to have imagined for his or her text? Explain.

Instructions: the following argument argues for advertising to children. read the argument and answer the question that follows: topic and question advertising: should companies be allowed to advertise to children? ineffective argument i think that advertising to children is necessary. how else will we know what we can buy? i think that children are not aware of the products that are available. most children don’t own cars and can’t drive to stores to look around. the only way we know what we can buy is by seeing advertisements on tv. my friend really likes advertisements, too. he said, "how will we know what to buy if we don’t see advertisements? " seriously, children are consumers, too. we know what we like and we ask our parents to buy these products for us. i know that i like certain cereals, but how would i know that if i did not see advertisements? i love those commercials! kids are people, too. why is the argument ineffective? in a paragraph of 7–10 complete sentences, explain why the following parts of the argument are ineffective, and how they can be improved: claim support conclusion clincher point of view transitions