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Proofread the following paragraph for run-ons and comma splices. Correct them any way you choose.

College costs have risen dramatically in recent years, many students now have to tap multiple resources to cover their expenses. These students are using their own savings and getting monetary help from parents and other relatives. In addition, 75 percent of all college students now work at least part- time earning a paycheck helps them make ends meet. Before they consider working even longer hours, these students should learn to apply early and often for different kinds of financial aid. Every year, they should fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form, ensuring consideration for grants that do not have to be repaid. They should regularly check college newsletters or bulletin boards for scholarship announcements yet another option is applying for loans with reasonable repayment terms. Financial survival is possible for college students experts say the secret is planning ahead, applying early, and combining different resources.





Proofread the following paragraph for run-ons and comma splices. Correct them any way you choose. Be careful of the punctuation.



Most people insist that advertising does not affect them and that they tune out ads and commercials. If these claims are true, however, why do companies spend billions a year on advertising? For the Super Bowl alone, corporations rush to buy 30-second commercial spots at $3 million each, in fact, ads work very well, declares former advertising executive Stephen Garey, they bombard people with attractive pictures and the hidden message, “buy, buy, buy.” The best defense against this ad blitz is learning to read ads critically.

Advertisers are master persuaders, their techniques are very different from those used in college and at work. A student or worker often must take a stand, surging for or against something he or she uses logical reasons and arguments to try and persuade others. Advertisers, on the other, hand use illogical but powerful visual methods to persuade people to but their products. The Center for Media Literacy lists ten such “techniques of persuasion” in ads:

Humor Friends Fun Sex appeal Celebrity

Macho Family Nature Cartoons Wealth

These techniques are emotional and indirect, often pictures are used to suggest pleasant associations with a product. For instance, one ad might show happy people smoking, it links “friends” and “fun” with cigarettes. Another ad shows a well-dressed man helping a beautiful woman into a car, associating “wealth,” macho,” and perhaps “sex appeal” with that brand of automobile. Flip through any popular magazine and see which techniques each ad uses look closely and ask yourself what audience is targeted by each ad. What methods attract you your attention and call to your dollars? Are there hidden messages? Looking critically at ads not only creates smarter consumers, it also trains the critical things skills that many professors and employers value.
  

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Are you asking us to do this assignment for you, or do you want to try it first and then have us check your work?

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I have tried doing it but to me it seems like there should be more mistakes than I have done.

Here is what I have gottne so far.

College costs have risen dramatically in recent years. Many students now have to tap multiple resources to cover their expenses. These students are using their own savings and getting monetary help from parents and other relatives. In addition, 75 per
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Hi,
I have tried doing it but to me it seems like there should be more mistakes than I have done.

Here is what I have gottne so far.

Look again at the areas I have flagged.

Clive

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