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1. How has the writer altered, or changed, the material from the Annotated Bibliography to the Six-Source Essay?(Answer in 1-3 sentences.) (E.g., "The writer has developed a thesis...; The writer has synthesized sources.....; The writer has clarified connections...")

The writer's thesis, at least to me, feels a bit unclear. I feel I had to reread it several times to understand their synthesis. If I had to narrow it down, I think their main point is that studying physical traits (like having a larynx) and looking into animal communications is not enough to understand how language evolved in humans. They believe that cognition in combination with merging/unification has led to the evolvement of human language.

What sources has she added to the Six Source Essay? What effect do the new source(s) have on the essay?(1-3 sentences) (E.g., "The new sources serve to emphasize the writer's point that...; The new sources illustrate specific ideas in the other articles.....")

The writer added the source of Jackendoff & Pinker to emphasize their thesis as it offers key evidence in the theories of unification and merging and how these processes have played an essential role in the development of human language.

2. Pick a paragraph section of the Six-Source Essay where synthesis needs to be improved, and add an appropriate transitional phrase/sentence.

I didn't fully understand what exactly was needed for this portion based on the instructions. But the paragraph that I think synthesis needs to be improved is below:

"Clearly animals communicate too. When researchers first began investigating the question of the evolution of human language they looked mainly to our closest genetic relatives, the great apes, and to birdsong, the most complex observed example of animal communication. Everyone who has heard birdsong can recognize that it consists of different notes, combined in different orders, and one might imagine that it is used for communication rather than expending energy for no purpose. Writing of chick-a-dee birdsong, Hailman observed that "the staggering variety of call-types created from combinations of note-types and their repetitions is not likely to be haphazard variation" (1985, p. 1). As the titleThe "chick-a-dee" calls of Parus atricapillus: A recombinant system of animal communication compared with written Englishsuggests, in 1985 there were very high hopes for finding close analogies between birdsong and human language."

I would change one of the sentences to say , "When researchers first began investigating the question of human language they looked mainly to our closest genetic relatives, the great apes and to birdsong, the most complex observed example of animal communication. As a result, it became clear that animals communicate, too."