Writing Academic English 4th Edition

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Thepurposeoflearningtoparaphraseis tobeabletouseparaphrasesassupporting

materialinyourwriting.Asyoureadthefollowingmodel,noticehowa studentin

a mediastudiesclassuseda paraphraseofa passagefromanonlinenewsarticleto

supportheridea.

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Althoughitissometimestruethattelevisionprog mming intheUnited

statespromotesthewrongvalues,I donotentirelyagree.Manyeducational

televisionchannelspromotegoodvalues.Forexample,theDiscoveryChannel,the

HistoryChannel, NationalGeographic,andothersimilarchannelseducatethe

publicaboutscience, history,nature,andtheenvironment.Also,evenprime-time

televisionprogrammingoftenprovidesa publicservicebyspreadingpublic

servicemessages.Infact,environmentalmessageshavebeendeliberatelyput

intoprime-timetelevisionshowsforthepastdecade.EnvironmentalMedia

Association,anorganizationofprofessionalsintheen~ertainmentbusiness,

encouragestelevisionactors,writers,directors,andpr'oducerstopromote

environmentalisminthreeways:byusingenvironmentalissuesinscripts,by

usingenvironmentalprodUCtsasprops,andbymakingenvironmentallyconscious

choicesinstudios(Leroux,par.2).Seeingthestarofa prime-timetelevision

showrecyclingplasticbottlesorusinganenvironmentallyfriendlyprodUctis

morepersuasivethanalmostanyothertypeofpublicservicemessage.Inshort,

televisionprogramspromotepositivevaluesinbothdirectandindirectways.