9. Determine which element of clear writing is lacking in the following short paragraph. Applying for financial aid for college is a complicated process. If you want to apply to a good
college, you must do well in high school. You may also want to consider the location of the
college that you want to go to. Good luck applying for financial aid.
1:unity
2:diction
3:coherence 4:order

1. Unity

Explanation:

One can recognize a unified paragraph when it contains mainly two things: a topic sentence (a sentence expressing the main idea of the paragraph) which is the focus of attention and two or more sentences that support the topic sentence, or that provide more information to the topic sentence.

The paragraph in the question is not unified because its sentences do not support or add information to the topic sentence “Applying for financial aid for college is a complicated process”. The rest of the sentences deviate from the main idea, they add details that are not relevant to understand why applying for financial aid for college is a complicated process or what should one do about it.

synomenous

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in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

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