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Verbal·Expression of Ideas·Rhetorical Synthesis

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• A sailing trip that goes in a complete circle around the world is called a circumnavigation.
• Most circumnavigations include stops on land.
• Anne Liardet is a French sailor.
• Liardet sailed the boat Roxy on a nonstop, 119-day circumnavigation.
• Asia Pajkowska is a Polish sailor.
• Pajkowska sailed the boat FanFan on a nonstop, 216-day circumnavigation.

The student wants to make a generalization about circumnavigations. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

A

Pajkowska sailed FanFan around the world, while Liardet sailed Roxy.

B

Pajkowska and Liardet have both embarked on sailing journeys around the world, also called circumnavigations.

C

Most circumnavigations include stops on land, but some circumnavigations are nonstop.

D

A circumnavigation is defined as a sailing trip that goes in a complete circle around the world.