Q: Check for any slimy stems and remove and discard these, too. Be careful when rinsing and trimming as enoki mushrooms are fragile and can be crushed easily. Pat them dry with a paper towel. Try cutting the mushrooms in half for smaller pieces. You can use olive oil, coconut oil, grape seed oil, avocado oil, or any other type you have on hand. It’s important to let the oil get hot so the rest of the ingredients will cook properly. An easy way to test if your oil is hot enough is to sprinkle a few drops of water into your pan. If the water sizzles, the oil is hot. Use a spatula or spoon to continuously stir the garlic so it doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pan and burn. If needed, turn the heat down to medium to prevent the garlic from burning. If your garlic does turn brown and burn, rinse out your pan and start the process over again. Burnt garlic can easily ruin a dish. Stir-fry for 3-4 minutes, or just until the mushrooms start to turn tender. Remove the pan from the heat and let it sit for 2-3 minutes to let the sauce marinate with the mushrooms even further. You can tell the mushrooms are tender when they are a little more limp than they were at the beginning. They will seem a bit like they’ve wilted. You can stir-fry other types of mushrooms, vegetables (zucchini, green beans, and carrots all stir-fry well), and even meats or tofu to add in with the enoki mushrooms. Sticky rice is always a good accompaniment to the mushrooms, too. Cook the enoki mushrooms separate from any other ingredients, though, since they cook so quickly. Putting them in with heartier vegetables would overcook them and change the consistency.
A: Rinse and trim off the hard ends of the mushrooms. Heat 2 US tbsp (30 mL) of oil in a large pan on medium high heat. Put the minced garlic into the pan and cook for 30 seconds. Add the mushrooms, 2  tsp (9.9 mL) of soy sauce, and 1  tsp (4.9 mL) of sesame oil to the pan. Serve the mushrooms on their own or combine with other vegetables.

Q: Prepare the cupcake cases or silicone cupcake pan.  Add the vanilla essence (extract). Add the water, oil, and milk now. Mix well with a wooden spoon.   Poke a toothpick in the middle of the cupcake to see if it is cooked. If it comes out with batter still sticking to it, put the cupcakes back for a little extra cooking until done. If wished, frost the cupcakes or serve plain. Enjoy.
A: Preheat the oven to 170ºC. Sift the flour and cocoa powder into one medium-sized bowl. Crack the egg and mix it into a separate bowl. In the bowl you added the flour and cocoa powder to, transfer in the egg mixture. Using a tablespoon, add 2 or 3 tablespoons (29.6 or 44.4 ml) of batter to each cupcake case, according to the size. Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Remove when baked. Allow to cool.

Q: Unless your prompt or assignment states otherwise, you’ll need to follow some basic conventions when writing your persuasive essay.  Persuasive essays, like argumentative essays, use rhetorical devices to persuade their readers. In persuasive essays, you generally have more freedom to make appeals to emotion (pathos), in addition to logic and data (logos) and credibility (ethos).  You should use multiple types of evidence carefully when writing a persuasive essay. Logical appeals such as presenting data, facts, and other types of “hard” evidence are often very convincing to readers. Persuasive essays generally have very clear thesis statements that make your opinion or chosen “side” known upfront. This helps your reader know exactly what you are arguing.   Bad: The United States was not an educated nation, since education was considered the right of the wealthy, and so in the early 1800s Horace Mann decided to try and rectify the situation. The art of persuasion has been studied since ancient Greece. While it takes a lifetime to master, learning the tricks and tools will make you a better writer almost immediately. For example, on a paper about allowing Syrian refugees, you could use:   Pathos, Ethos, and Logos: These are the 3 cornerstones of rhetoric. Pathos is about emotion, ethos is about credibility, and logos is about logic. These 3 components work together to help you develop a strong argument. For example, you could tell an anecdote about a family torn apart by the current situation in Syria to incorporate pathos, make use of logic to argue for allowing Syrian refugees as your logos, and then provide reputable sources to back up your quotes for ethos.   Repetition: Keep hammering on your thesis. Tell them what you're telling them, tell them it, then tell them what you told them. They'll get the point by the end. Example: Time and time again, the statistics don't lie -- we need to open our doors to help refugees.   Social Validation: Quotations reinforce that you aren't the only one making this point. It tells people that, socially, if they want to fit in, they need to consider your viewpoint. Example: "Let us not forget the words etched on our grandest national monument, the Statue of Liberty, which asks that we "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” There is no reason why Syrians are not included in this.   Agitation of the Problem: Before offering solutions, show them how bad things are. Give them a reason to care about your argument.Example: "Over 100 million refugees have been displaced. President Assad has not only stolen power, he's gassed and bombed his own citizens. He has defied the Geneva Conventions, long held as a standard of decency and basic human rights, and his people have no choice but to flee." You need to sound an expert, and like you should be trustworthy. Cut out small words or wishy-washy phrase to adopt a tone of authority.   Good: "Time and time again, science has shown that arctic drilling is dangerous. It is not worth the risks environmentally or economically."  Good: "Without pushing ourselves to energy independence, in the arctic and elsewhere, we open ourselves up to the dangerous dependency that spiked gas prices in the 80's."  Bad: "Arctic drilling may not be perfect, but it will probably help us stop using foreign oil at some point. This, I imagine, will be a good thing." Persuasion is about upending commonly held thoughts and forcing the reader to reevaluate. While you never want to be crass or confrontational, you need to poke into the reader's potential concerns.   Good: Does anyone think that ruining someone’s semester, or, at least, the chance to go abroad, should be the result of a victimless crime? Is it fair that we actively promote drinking as a legitimate alternative through Campus Socials and a lack of consequences? How long can we use the excuse that “just because it’s safer than alcohol doesn’t mean we should make it legal,” disregarding the fact that the worst effects of the drug are not physical or chemical, but institutional?  Good: We all want less crime, stronger families, and fewer dangerous confrontations over drugs. We need to ask ourselves, however, if we're willing to challenge the status quo to get those results.  Bad: This policy makes us look stupid. It is not based in fact, and the people that believe it are delusional at best, and villains at worst. While the majority of your essay should be kept to your own argument, you'll bullet-proof your case if you can see and disprove the arguments against you. Save this for the second to last paragraph, in general.   Good: While people do have accidents with guns in their homes, it is not the government’s responsibility to police people from themselves. If they're going to hurt themselves, that is their right.  Bad: The only obvious solution is to ban guns. There is no other argument that matters.
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Understand the conventions of a persuasive essay. Use a variety of persuasion techniques to hook your readers. Be authoritative and firm. Challenge your readers. Acknowledge, and refute, arguments against you.