Question 862093: which of the following revisions would make the passage more appropriate for its purpose and intended audience?
a. part 4: replace the word "lived with the word "dwelled."
b. part 6: replace the word :marker" with the word "tombstone."
c. part 7: replace the phrase "saying thanks" with the phrase " paying tribute."
d. part 11: replace the phrase "beauty of nature" with the phrase "great out -of-doors".
this is writing skills the passage is written in college English textbook form. 1At the time of her death in 1960,Zora Neale Hurston was remembered by few people. 2In the last fifteen years of her life, the talented writer who had earlier captivated critics as well as readers in books such as Mulers and Men and Their Eyes Were Watching God could barely make a living at her craft. 3One person who did not forget hrt was Alice Walker, a contemporary writer. 4A Georgia native, Walker graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where she lived for a time. 5During the early 1970s,as the young writer began making a name for herself in the literary world; she badgered authors,critics, and publishers to reconsider Hurston's work. 6She also found the unmarked grave in which Hurston had been buried and paid to have a marker placed over it. 7She did these things, Walker explained, as a way of saying thanks to someone who had strongly influenced her own development as a writer. 8The nature of that influence is not hard to discover. 9Although separated by four decades, both writers explore similar themes in their novels. 10They are particularly concerned about the empowerment of the oppressed. 11Their female characters find power in the beauty of nature and in the relationships they built with other people. 12They then use
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