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Lesson: Critical Reading - 07t05

Topic And Scope Practice

[Page 7 of 19]
Identify the topic and scope of each passage excerpt that appears below. Type your answers into the text boxes that follow, and then click Continue.

Excerpt 1

The theater director, the person responsible for the staging and dramatic impact of the stage performance, is a relatively recent phenomenon whose rise is parallel with the emergence of certain political and social strains new to the nineteenth century, beginning in Germany.

What is the topic?

What is the scope?

Excerpt 2

The strategies and tactics and, hence, the outcome of the battle of Gettysburg could have turned out very differently had it not been for the intelligence gathered by each side in the days prior to the battle.

What is the topic?

What is the scope?

Excerpt 3

Manufacturers of "faux wood" products are considering the promotion of such products as environmentally friendly. Reasonable copies of various kinds of wood can be fashioned out of plastic and used in "faux wood" furniture, and it is argued that since such furniture will save trees, environmentally conscious consumers will actively seek it out.

What is the topic?

What is the scope?


Will those who care about the environment go for such an appeal? That's what the author will be exploring, and it is therefore closely related to his purpose. Every author has a purpose in writing, and this purpose will be the topic of our next critical reading task.

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