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CHAPTER 9
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2. A number of tough issuesface the newspaper industry as it adapts to changes in the economyand technology.
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3. Modern technology began radically revolutionizing newspapers in the 1970s.
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4. Although newspapers remain a strong mediumfor communication, a num- ber of significant concerns have been raised about their future. Paraphrase
5. In the 1990s, the development of faster means of communication created in- tensedemandformoreefficient waysoftransmittingdataandthehumanvoice. Paraphrase
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
1. In much of the traditional teaching of L2 writing, the meanings and discourse functions of adjectives and adverbs have not received a great deal of attention. In fact instruction is usually limited to the syn- tactic forms of these lexical items. Why do you think this development has occurred?
2. Please take a look at the following sentences. Can you explain the reasons for the meaning differences between Sentences (1) and (2) and between Sentences (3) and (4)?
1. With the professor, students discussed their problems. 2. Students discussed their problems with the professor. 3. *With the book, students discussed their problems.
4. Students discussed their problems with the book.
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