(1) School involvement in community service drastically increases teen participation. (2) According to the Corporation for National and Community Service, by 1999, 83% of high schools held community service activities. (3) The same study states that teen volunteering rates doubled between 1989 and 2005. (4) Today, teen involvement is mostly episodic, meaning that although teen involvement in community service is increasing, today’s teens prefer shorter obligations. (5) Although the high school requirement of one hundred hours seems long, students can fulfill it over four years. (6) The high school requirement is flexible and can work with an episodic volunteering schedule.

Question

Where would you add the following sentence, and why? This suggests that an increase in school service programs increases teen interest and participation overall.

After the last sentence, as a conclusion

After sentence 3, to link evidence and claim

In the first sentence, to add a claim

After sentence 2, as a transition

Answer 1

The best placement for the sentence "This suggests that an increase in school service programs increases teen interest and participation overall." is after sentence 3, to link evidence and claim.

This placement effectively connects the statistics provided in sentence 3 (about the doubling of teen volunteering rates) to the claim presented in sentence 1 (that school involvement in community service drastically increases teen participation). By placing it here, it reinforces the idea that the data supports the assertion made at the beginning.