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repetition of her last name
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- Sep 2022
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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In the age of streaming, the idea of distinct musical genres has all but collapsed
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She performed one of her first compositions for Corden, a ukulele-driven song that featured the line, “We lay all day in a comfy bed / What a wonderful life”. The teen-goth pessimism and angsty hyperbole for which she would become known was yet to emerge.
cohesive devices - word choice
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Her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? came out in March 2019, and turned her star into a supernova.
Topic sentence that discusses her album and its successes (which is continued in the entire paragraph)
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The singer has written and recorded the theme for the forthcoming film, No Time To Die, and follows Adele and Sam Smith, who both won an Oscar for their efforts. She is the first teenager ever to tackle a Bond song.
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www.the-scientist.com www.the-scientist.com
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His team already has more findings that support the cerebellum’s contribution to addictive behavior, and in particular to the solidifying of a neurally stimulating behavior such as drug use. Such memory-making may render some individuals more susceptible to addictions. “One of the biggest problems is that those who are addicts [or former addicts] can be weaned from their addiction but if there is a new stress, the person is very susceptible to relapse,” Khodakhah says. “We think the reason is that there is a signature of the memory within the cerebellum. . . . If we understand that better we might be able to provide pharmacological or other therapeutic interventions to help these individuals.”
orienting statements - I feel like this gives the article a clear end and conclusion which ultimately reveals the direction of the essay
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Digging deeper into the literature, Khodakhah found that there are striking correlations between perturbations of the cerebellum and certain brain disorders.
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Broadening brain connections
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t for us.” In Armstrong’s lab,
Transitions - The switch from Armstrong's advice to Khodakhah to Khodakhah's work in his lab makes logical sense
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Khodakhah started working on the InsP3-calcium signaling in Purkinje neurons and, when he had finished his PhD, moved to the US in 1992 to do a postdoc in Clay Armstrong’s biophysics laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania.
Cohesive devices - Pronoun usage helps to eliminate excessive repetition.
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Khodakhah was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1967, the oldest of three siblings.
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Eavesdropping on neurons
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After a year of trying, the study seemed to be a failure—the young doctoral candidate couldn’t show that InsP3 stimulates intracellular release of calcium ions in Purkinje neurons.
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While many of the other students were attending with the obvious goal of repairing TVs and other appliances, Khodakhah had a different aim. He reasoned that if he could understand how a television worked, he could design new tools to study the rat brain slices he had collected.
Orientating Statements - Thesis statement which reveals the direction the rest of the essay will go.
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