Read the following paragraph.

The advertisement targets parents who could easily associate the children in the picture with their own children. In the ad, a mother and father are reading a book to their two young children. This has a positive connotation of intimacy and love. The image implies that reading is not just intellectually beneficial, but that it creates a closer bond between parents and their children. Because of this association technique, parents are persuaded to read to their children. Most parents certainly would want their children to do well academically and feel loved at the same time. Therefore, this ad effectively encourages literacy.

Which of the following revisions will most likely improve this paragraph?
the addition of a strong topic sentence
the inclusion of the ad’s purpose
the determination of the ad’s target audience
the evaluation of the ad’s technique

This advertisment is certainly effective on parents who are really interested in making their children become literate. This can work as a topic sentence for the paragraph. The paragraph is focussed on an effective advertisement for parents and on literacy. The paragraph describes the advertisement, there are parents and their children in it. This is to show the target: parents who have children similar to the ones in the adverstisement. The picture recreates an atmosphere of love and intimacy: this is the hidden message. The purpose is to link an intellectual activity with parents' love. As a consequence, literacy can be associated with parents' love and with an intellectual effect on their children.