Online Writing courseTASK 1: Read this passage and complete the chart below. Be sure to identify the body paragraph:

Body Paragraph

TS: Topic sentence

SS: Supporting sentence

FED: Facts, Example or Details

CS: Conclusion Sentence

TS: One of the biggest preoccupations to deny the FTA negotiations between the United States and Ecuador is the position of

the United States that wants to acquire the property rights of animals and plants. SS#1: Furthermore, there are not international

laws to guide negotiations about the property rights of biodiversity and it will be irrational for Ecuador to give away the patents of all

the Amazon and Andean species. FED#1:For example, in Ecuador there is a frog named Epipedobathes tricolor whose venom is

two hundred times more powerful than morphine, and it is used to reduce pain in patients with cancer; consequently, Americans

want to take advantage of that and patent it. SS#2: Similarly, the United States wants to patent surgical and therapeutic diagnostics

based on native knowledge of indigenous people. FED#2: In fact, it is the case of the “ayahuasca, uña de gato, maca, and sangre

de drago” which are used to cure some illnesses such as diabetes and rheumatism. SS#3:In addition, Americans not only want that,

besides they pretend to negotiate the whole Amazon region because they know its importance as the lungs of the world, but in an

ironical form they did not sign the Kyoto Treaty in 1992. FED#3: In fact, one of the United States’ strategies is to persuade Ecuador

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to believe that the country will export more and become wealthy because of the FTA negotiations, but actually Ecuador is a rich

country because of its biodiversity and natural resources located especially in the Amazon region. CS: In conclusion, it will be

irrational and unfair to negotiate intellectual patents of biodiversity due to Ecuador is not in the same conditions to negotiate.

Body Paragraph

Topic Sentence One of the biggest preoccupations to deny the FTA negotiations between the United States and Ecuador is the position of the United States that wants to acquire the property rights of animals and plants.

Supporting Sentence #1 Furthermore, there are not international laws to guide negotiations about the property rights of biodiversity and it will be irrational for Ecuador to give away the patents of all the Amazon and Andean species.

Facts, Example or Details #1 For example, in Ecuador there is a frog named Epipedobathes tricolor whose venom is two hundred times more powerful than morphine, and it is used to reduce pain in patients with cancer; consequently, Americans want to take advantage of that and patent it.

Supporting Sentence #2 Similarly, the United States wants to patent surgical and therapeutic diagnostics based on native knowledge of indigenous people.

Facts, Example or Details #2 In fact, it is the case of the “ayahuasca, uña de gato, maca, and sangre de drago” which are used to cure some illnesses such as diabetes and rheumatism.

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Supporting Sentence #3 In addition, Americans not only want that, besides they pretend to negotiate the whole Amazon region because they know its importance as the lungs of the world, but in an ironical form they did not sign the Kyoto Treaty in 1992.

Facts, Example or Details #3 In fact, one of the United States’ strategies is to persuade Ecuador to believe that the country will export more and become wealthy because of the FTA negotiations, but actually Ecuador is a rich country because of its biodiversity and natural resources located especially in the Amazon region.

Conclusion Sentence In conclusion, it will be irrational and unfair to negotiate intellectual patents of biodiversity due

to Ecuador is not in the same conditions to negotiate.

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