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Using the handout from class, create your own Barclay style paragraph making a claim of your choosing. Label each section of your paragraph with the corresponding symbol [C] for claim, {Q1 for first quote] and so on. You might choose to use actual sources (from online or elsewhere) to support your claim, or you may choose to make up your sources (as we did in class). Have fun with it. Upload as an ePortfolio Blog Post (“Barclay Paragraph Practice”).

[C] The Honda Accord is the most reliable car out there, surpassing any other car being sold today. [I] From personal experience and known sources, one can see how a Honda Accord will never die. [Q1] According to a 2001 Honda Accord owner, Patrick Maloney, “Rhonda will never stop. She has three hundred thousands miles and has surpassed the life of another car my family has owned” (32). [E] In other words, not many cars live to see 300 thousand miles and this honda accord isn’t stopping anytime soon. It has been in his family for over 10 years and has outlasted every other vehicle his family has owned. [T] Miles can’t stop an Accord and neither can its lack of oil.[Q2] Scott Kaufman, a youtuber, has experimented with an old Accord, “I ran this car without oil for 7 minutes before it stopped. No other car has been able to go that long without oil” (87). [Ce] When it comes to an Accord, the reliability of the car and the engine itself is no match to other cars. An accord with out life any of the cars you see on the road today.