Reading & WritingChapter 5: Text Structure and Purpose
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Cause and Effect: 5-5: Official SAT mapping?
💡Connect the answer to the role a cause, effect, or mechanism plays in a text's explanation.
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Craft and Structure → Text Structure and Purpose.
ExampleAsk what the relevant portion contributes to the passage as a whole.
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Cause and Effect: 5-5: What is this topic's core focus?
💡Connect the answer to the role a cause, effect, or mechanism plays in a text's explanation.
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Identifying the role a cause, effect, or mechanism plays in a text's explanation.
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Cause and Effect: 5-5: Content vs function?
💡Connect the answer to the role a cause, effect, or mechanism plays in a text's explanation.
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Content says what information appears; function explains what that information does in the text.
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Cause and Effect: 5-5: Best working strategy?
💡Connect the answer to the role a cause, effect, or mechanism plays in a text's explanation.
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verify causation, identify linked events, then explain why the relationship appears
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Cause and Effect: 5-5: Primary trap?
💡Connect the answer to the role a cause, effect, or mechanism plays in a text's explanation.
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treating sequence or correlation as established causation
ExampleAsk what the relevant portion contributes to the passage as a whole.
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Cause and Effect: 5-5: How does the target relate to the whole?
💡Connect the answer to the role a cause, effect, or mechanism plays in a text's explanation.
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a cause can explain a finding or motivate a response; an effect can supply a result or significance
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Cause and Effect: 5-5: Why read before the target?
💡Connect the answer to the role a cause, effect, or mechanism plays in a text's explanation.
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To identify the point or expectation the target will develop, support, complicate, or revise.
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Cause and Effect: 5-5: Why read after the target?
💡Connect the answer to the role a cause, effect, or mechanism plays in a text's explanation.
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The later sentence often interprets the target or reveals why it matters.
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Cause and Effect: 5-5: Main vs secondary function?
💡Connect the answer to the role a cause, effect, or mechanism plays in a text's explanation.
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Choose the role that best explains the target's contribution to the passage, not a merely incidental effect.
ExampleAsk what the relevant portion contributes to the passage as a whole.
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Cause and Effect: 5-5: Unsupported-purpose warning?
💡Connect the answer to the role a cause, effect, or mechanism plays in a text's explanation.
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Do not infer a hidden motive, audience reaction, or intention not established by the text.
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Cause and Effect: 5-5: Content-paraphrase warning?
💡Connect the answer to the role a cause, effect, or mechanism plays in a text's explanation.
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Repeating what a target says is not enough; state its rhetorical relationship.
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Cause and Effect: 5-5: Wrong-target warning?
💡Connect the answer to the role a cause, effect, or mechanism plays in a text's explanation.
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Check that the option describes the referenced portion rather than an adjacent sentence.
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Cause and Effect: 5-5: One-text boundary?
💡Connect the answer to the role a cause, effect, or mechanism plays in a text's explanation.
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Chapter 5 normally analyzes one text; relationships between two texts belong to Cross-Text Connections.
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Cause and Effect: 5-5: Transition boundary?
💡Connect the answer to the role a cause, effect, or mechanism plays in a text's explanation.
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Transition words can reveal structure, but choosing a transition belongs to the Transitions skill.
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Cause and Effect: 5-5: Final self-check?
💡Connect the answer to the role a cause, effect, or mechanism plays in a text's explanation.
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Does the answer state the correct rhetorical action, content target, scope, order, and degree of certainty?
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Cause and Effect: Does sequence establish cause?
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No. One event following another does not by itself show that the first caused the second.
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Cause and Effect: Cause vs mechanism?
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A cause produces an outcome; a mechanism explains the process connecting cause and outcome.
ExampleAsk what the relevant portion contributes to the passage as a whole.
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Cause and Effect: Why might a causal explanation appear before a response?
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To establish why that response is needed or likely to help.
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Cause and Effect: Chapter 5 causal question vs detail question?
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Chapter 5 asks what role causal information plays, not merely what caused an event.
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Cause and Effect: Causal-overreach trap?
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An option claims causation or certainty stronger than the passage establishes.
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