Identify each example as either "supported by evidence" or "not supported by evidence."


1)Critic John Smith asserts that Hemingway

should not be grouped with other modernist

writers.


2)Just before the Great Depression, the United

States was prospering. Unemployment dipped

to a low of 3 percent, while the gross national

product topped $1 trillion.


3)A study of the 100 most profitable public

companies showed increased investment in

new technologies each year for the last decade.


4)Everyone knows that Italians are the finest

cooks in the world, along with the French.