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7 Strayer’s work has been featured at National Distracted Driving summits, used by states to enact no-texting while driving laws, he’s even testified in criminal court proceedings—often meeting the families of those killed in distracted driving crashes.
Second Read
• Reread the passage to answer this text-dependent comprehension question.
• Write any additional questions you have about the text in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
6. Knowledge and Ideas: What is David Strayer’s argument? Is it sound? Cite textual evidence in your response.
Working from the Text
7. Effective arguments use quotes and paraphrased evidence from sources to support claims. For example, David Strayer, who has been studying distracted driving for 15 years, calls texting “hazardous” and “more dangerous than . . . driving drunk.” Write a quote and/or paraphrase evidence from the article above.
Check Your Understanding WRITING to SOURCES Wrting Prompt
Choose one quote from each of the articles you have just read to support the claim: Texting while driving is distracting and increases the risk of crashes. Use the TLQC format, as you learned in Unit 1 (Activity 1.15), to state the importance of the evidence. Be sure to:
• Use the TLQC format for introducing quoted material.
• Write in the active voice.
• Use ellipses when necessary to show that words have been left out.
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