Reading & WritingChapter 6: Cross-Text Connections
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Comparing Claims: 6-6: Official SAT mapping?
💡Use the Text 1 → Text 2 → relationship sequence.
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Craft and Structure → Cross-Text Connections.
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Comparing Claims: 6-6: Three-stage model?
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Understand Text 1, understand Text 2, then evaluate the stem-directed relationship.
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Comparing Claims: 6-6: What makes an answer cross-text?
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Its accuracy depends meaningfully on information from both texts.
ExampleTest the statement against both texts and preserve each qualification.
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Comparing Claims: 6-6: Does the same topic prove agreement?
💡Use the Text 1 → Text 2 → relationship sequence.
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No. A shared topic does not establish a shared claim.
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Comparing Claims: 6-6: Scope words to protect?
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May, can, often, primarily, only, some, and under specified conditions.
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Comparing Claims: 6-6: Text-2-only trap?
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A statement accurately supported by Text 2 that lacks support from Text 1 when both are required.
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Comparing Claims: 6-6: Overgeneralization warning?
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Reject an absolute conclusion when either text states a condition, uncertainty, or limited context.
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Comparing Claims: 6-6: Relationship prediction?
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Before reading choices, complete: Text 2 ___ Text 1 by ___.
ExampleTest the statement against both texts and preserve each qualification.
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Comparing Claims: 6-6: Why identify the stem criterion?
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One pair may support several true relationships, but only the requested comparison answers the question.
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Comparing Claims: 6-6: Final verification?
💡Use the Text 1 → Text 2 → relationship sequence.
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Point to exact support in Text 1 and Text 2, then check attribution, relationship, scope, and certainty.
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Comparing Claims: 6-6: Direct agreement?
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Both texts affirm the same relevant proposition with compatible scope.
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Comparing Claims: 6-6: Partial agreement?
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The texts share a bounded claim but differ elsewhere in emphasis, scope, cause, or interpretation.
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Comparing Claims: 6-6: Alternative explanation?
💡Use the Text 1 → Text 2 → relationship sequence.
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Text 2 may accept Text 1's observation while proposing a different cause or mechanism.
ExampleTest the statement against both texts and preserve each qualification.
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Comparing Claims: 6-6: Different evidence?
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The texts use distinct information sources; that fact alone does not determine whether their claims agree.
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Comparing Claims: 6-6: Unsupported intent warning?
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Do not infer admiration, hostility, certainty, or motive unless the text establishes it.
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Comparing Claims: Four claim features to compare
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Direction, scope, certainty, and conditions.
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Comparing Claims: Topic vs claim in two texts
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The topic is shared subject matter; each claim states a position about that subject.
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Comparing Claims: May vs always
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The claims differ in certainty and scope even if they point in the same general direction.
ExampleTest the statement against both texts and preserve each qualification.
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Comparing Claims: Unsupported-synthesis trap
💡Use the Text 1 → Text 2 → relationship sequence.
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Combining two claims into a stronger third claim that neither author states.
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Comparing Claims: Correct claim attribution
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Keep each proposition attached to the text that actually advances it before describing their relationship.
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