17. which of the following occurs after
gathering sources and information for a
research essay?
a. the writer creates the thesis
statement for the work.
b. the writer creates a rough draft of the
final work
c. the writer looks for information on the
topic of the work
d. the writer develops an outline to use
while writing

A. The writer creates the thesis  statement for the work.

Explanation:

The writer creates the thesis  statement for the work is what occurs after  gathering sources and information for a  research essay.

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.

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