Subject and Topic Quiz: Question Two

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Subject and Topic QuizQuestion Two

• Anxiety symptoms and disorders occur frequently
  in youth.
• The doer of the action In whom do the symptoms
  and disorders occur?
• Youth.

• Youth frequently suffer from/ experience anxiety
  symptoms and disorders.

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Society is invested in having childrens
potential difficulties identified at an early
age.
Question Three Making the subject and topic the
same

• what is the subject?
• what is the topic?

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Society is invested in having childrens
potential difficulties identified at an early
age.

• -what is the subject? Society
• -what is the topic? childrens potential
  difficulties

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Subject and Topic are the Same

• Identifying childrens potential difficulties at
  an early age is something in which society is
  invested.

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Question Four

• Alliance members met to discuss the Safe Schools
  Amendment to the Education Act in Ontario.

• The Safe Schools Amendment to the Education Act
  in Ontario was the topic that Alliance members
  met to discuss.
• the purpose of the meeting

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Question Five

• Anxiety disorders are common in the community,
  have grave personal consequences and impose
  considerable costs on society, according to a
  paper written by Lynn D. Miller.

• According to a paper by Lynn D. Miller, anxiety
  disorders are common in the community, have grave
  personal consequences and impose considerable
  costs on society.

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What was the point?

• Write Strategically.
• If somethings not hanging together, it may be
  because your topics are buried too deeply, or
  because theyre placed too early in the sentence
  for the reader to keep up.
• An awareness of how to use subject and topic will
  help you.
• Metadiscourse.

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ARX.Style.05 Question Two

• In a culture of plenty where the young are
  pressured to succeed even before birth, the
  achievement package has come to include,
  especially for girls, a "perfect" body. Starting
  at puberty, sometimes before, the mounting
  pressure launches girls into the stratosphere of
  fat fear, in part fueled by the ubiquity of food,
  in part by new sensitivities adolescence brings
  to the judgments of others. But perhaps the
  greatest accelerant of fat fear and distorted
  eating is the peer culture to which adolescents
  have been consigned for the past few decades.
• Marano, Hara Estroff. Skinny Sweepstakes.
  Psychology Today Magazine Online. Jan/Feb 2008.
  25 February 2008. lt http//psychologytoday.com/art
  icles/pto-20071228-000004.xmlgt.

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First sentence, with and without new info at end
of sentence

• In a culture of plenty where the young are
  pressured to succeed even before birth, the
  achievement package has come to include,
  especially for girls, a "perfect" body.

• A perfect body, especially for girls, is part
  of the achievement package that young girls are
  pressured to achieve, even before birth, in this
  culture of plenty.

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Second sentence, with and without new info at end
of sentence

• Starting at puberty, sometimes before, the
  mounting pressure launches girls into the
  stratosphere of fat fear, in part fueled by the
  ubiquity of food, in part by new sensitivities
  adolescence brings to the judgments of others.

• New adolescent sensitivities to the judgement of
  others, along with the ubiquity of food,
  contribute to the mounting pressure that launches
  girls into the stratosphere of fat fear that
  starts at puberty, sometimes before.

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Third sentence with and without new info at end
of sentence

• But perhaps the greatest accelerant of fat fear
  and distorted eating is the peer culture to which
  adolescents have been consigned for the past few
  decades.

• But it is the peer culture to which adolescents
  have been consigned for the past few decades that
  is perhaps the greatest accelerant of fat fear
  and distorted eating.

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• In a culture of plenty where the young are
  pressured to succeed even before birth, the
  achievement package has come to include,
  especially for girls, a "perfect" body. Starting
  at puberty, sometimes before, the mounting
  pressure launches girls into the stratosphere of
  fat fear, in part fueled by the ubiquity of food,
  in part by new sensitivities adolescence brings
  to the judgments of others. But perhaps the
  greatest accelerant of fat fear and distorted
  eating is the peer culture to which adolescents
  have been consigned for the past few decades.

• A perfect body, especially for girls, is part
  of the achievement package that young girls are
  pressured to achieve, even before birth, in this
  culture of plenty. New adolescent sensitivities
  to the judgement of others, along with the
  ubiquity of food, contribute to the mounting
  pressure that launches girls into the
  stratosphere of fat fear that starts at puberty,
  sometimes before. But it is the peer culture to
  which adolescents have been consigned for the
  past few decades that is perhaps the greatest
  accelerant of fat fear and distorted eating.

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ARX.Style.05

• Q 4 When is it useful to make a sentences
  subject and its topic differ?
• When you are easing into a complex idea
• Lots of us have HD TVs, but most of us dont
  realize that were not actually receiving HD
  signals.
• When you are using metadiscourse to lead your
  reader through new information
• We have come to think of global warming as the
  status quo.
• When the subject is being used as a transition
• Next, we will explore the meaning of life.