1. Identifying and Creating Support for Ideas
Common Places: Integrated Reading and Writing
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3. Four Ideas for How Obama Could Really Transform the Cost of College
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Four Ideas for How Obama Could Really Transform the Cost of College
By Bryce Covert

5. Major supporting point:
First, we should allow graduates to discharge student loans
in bankruptcy.
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Supporting detail:
What the Center for American
Progress proposes—allowing
bankruptcy forgiveness
Supporting detail:
Bankruptcy
law now
Results:
Would lower default rate, benefit graduates, incentivize lenders to offer better loan terms, and encourage colleges to develop career-
placement strategies.

6. Cities should encourage the development of local farmers’ markets for
Local farmers earn $$
Buyers save $$
City => tax dollars
FM’s benefit the local economy. 1
Thesis
Statement:
Cities should encourage the development of local farmers’ markets for
several
reasons.
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food is picked & sold w/o delay
very little processing
FM’s provide the freshest food. 3
avoiding
transportation =
savings in
greenhouse gases
less consumption
of fossil fuels
FM’s help the environment by reducing transportation-
related pollution.

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