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Work for “Best in Class”
These questions are taken from Teaching with The Language of Composition.
1. In this essay, Talbot surveys a range of perspectives on the issue of valedictorians.
Identify at least four of them. Identify four people and write in your own words their
beliefs about the issue of valedictorians.
PERSON’S NAME AND TITLE
BELIEF ABOUT VALEDICTORIANS
2. What is Talbot’s position on this argument? Does she think that naming a single
valedictorian is right or wrong or somewhere in between? Identify passages that support
your response. Use direct quotations in your writing.
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