# Answer key - writing essays

## Numbers the sources give
6,400 · 14 (streets) · 71% · 9 km/h · 08:00 · 10:00 · 38 (collisions) · 11 (with a pedestrian) · 2025 · €1.2 million · 210 (parking spaces) · 96 (shops) · 58 · 31 · 7 · 15% · six shops · 2023 · 22% · 41 (shops) · 07:00 · 11:00 · 44 and 19 (micrograms) · 34% · 61% · 5,100 · March 2026 · February 2026 · November 2025.
Arithmetic on these is allowed if right (6,400 × 71% ≈ 4,500 through-cars; 5,100 is 20% below 6,400; 44 to 19 is a 57% fall).

## Names the sources give
Vila Serena · the old town · Rua Direita · Rua das Flores · the Municipal Council · the Old Town Traders' Association · the University of Vila Serena, Department of Civil Engineering. Any other city, street, study, body or person is imported.

## What must appear
- [1], [2] and [3] each cited at least once, next to a sentence that uses that source.
- The disagreement: the council's 6,400 against the university's 5,100.
- A counterargument paragraph that states the other side's strongest point (for a ban: the 58 traders and the 15%; against a ban: the 11 pedestrian collisions or the 22% and the air quality) and answers it.
- A title. 500 to 600 words below it.

## What must not appear
- Any number, city, study, percentage or example not in the sources.
- Bullet points, headings, "In this essay I will…", "This essay argues…".
- A quoted sentence attributed to a source that the source does not contain.