You are researching the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and you want to know more about the folk songs that people sang during the civil rights marches. Three different times you click on links to hear the songs being sung. Each link is broken. What might you conclude? The website may be outdated. The author has a bias, or feels strongly about the songs. The songs were not sung during the Civil Rights Movement. The author is not an expert about folk songs of the era.

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hine was able to receive a high school and college education.

reasoning from several particular examples to establish a general principle

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

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.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.