Question

analyze this paragraph from the body of a research paper. is it an effective paragraph? why or why not? vuoskoski and eerola in their study titled \can sad music really make you sad? indirect measures of affective states induced by music and autobiographical memories\ focus on the emotion of sadness. their research starts with four groupings: sad music picked by them, neutral music, sad music picked out by the participants, and sad recall. the participants listened to these and then were asked to remember words that they had heard before listening. the results of the experiment were that in the first two categories (sad music chosen and neutral music) the amount of positive and negative words remembered were roughly equal; in the third category of sad music chosen individually there was a notable difference and even more of one in sad recall (vuoskoski and eerola 208). the paragraph would be stronger if the author quoted more and paraphrased less. this is a strong paragraph because it focuses on explaining one piece of research. this paragraph lacks purpose, and could be strengthened with a key sentence.

Explanation:

The paragraph simply describes a study without a clear - stated purpose or main point. A key sentence could help clarify its role in the research paper. It doesn't have a strong argumentative or explanatory focus just by presenting the study details.

Answer:

This paragraph lacks purpose, and could be strengthened with a key sentence.