Reading & WritingChapter 5: Text Structure and Purpose
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Overall Text Structure: 5-4: Official SAT mapping?
💡Connect the answer to the major rhetorical moves and their order and relationship.
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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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Overall Text Structure: 5-4: What is this topic's core focus?
💡Connect the answer to the major rhetorical moves and their order and relationship.
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Identifying the major rhetorical moves and their order and relationship.
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Overall Text Structure: 5-4: Content vs function?
💡Connect the answer to the major rhetorical moves and their order and relationship.
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Content says what information appears; function explains what that information does in the text.
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Overall Text Structure: 5-4: Best working strategy?
💡Connect the answer to the major rhetorical moves and their order and relationship.
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divide the text into moves and label each with a simple rhetorical verb
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Overall Text Structure: 5-4: Primary trap?
💡Connect the answer to the major rhetorical moves and their order and relationship.
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correct moves placed in the wrong order
ExampleAsk what the relevant portion contributes to the passage as a whole.
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Overall Text Structure: 5-4: How does the target relate to the whole?
💡Connect the answer to the major rhetorical moves and their order and relationship.
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structure maps such as context → finding → significance or claim → evidence → qualification
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Overall Text Structure: 5-4: Why read before the target?
💡Connect the answer to the major rhetorical moves and their order and relationship.
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To identify the point or expectation the target will develop, support, complicate, or revise.
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Overall Text Structure: 5-4: Why read after the target?
💡Connect the answer to the major rhetorical moves and their order and relationship.
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The later sentence often interprets the target or reveals why it matters.
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Overall Text Structure: 5-4: Main vs secondary function?
💡Connect the answer to the major rhetorical moves and their order and relationship.
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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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Overall Text Structure: 5-4: Unsupported-purpose warning?
💡Connect the answer to the major rhetorical moves and their order and relationship.
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Do not infer a hidden motive, audience reaction, or intention not established by the text.
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Overall Text Structure: 5-4: Content-paraphrase warning?
💡Connect the answer to the major rhetorical moves and their order and relationship.
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Repeating what a target says is not enough; state its rhetorical relationship.
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Overall Text Structure: 5-4: Wrong-target warning?
💡Connect the answer to the major rhetorical moves and their order and relationship.
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Check that the option describes the referenced portion rather than an adjacent sentence.
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Overall Text Structure: 5-4: One-text boundary?
💡Connect the answer to the major rhetorical moves and their order and relationship.
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Chapter 5 normally analyzes one text; relationships between two texts belong to Cross-Text Connections.
ExampleAsk what the relevant portion contributes to the passage as a whole.
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Overall Text Structure: 5-4: Transition boundary?
💡Connect the answer to the major rhetorical moves and their order and relationship.
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Transition words can reveal structure, but choosing a transition belongs to the Transitions skill.
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Overall Text Structure: 5-4: Final self-check?
💡Connect the answer to the major rhetorical moves and their order and relationship.
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Does the answer state the correct rhetorical action, content target, scope, order, and degree of certainty?
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Overall Text Structure: What does an overall-structure question track?
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Major rhetorical moves and how they are ordered or related.
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Overall Text Structure: Best shorthand for mapping structure?
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Use verbs: introduces, explains, contrasts, illustrates, qualifies, concludes.
ExampleAsk what the relevant portion contributes to the passage as a whole.
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Overall Text Structure: Accepted view → complication → revision means?
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The text presents an existing account, shows a problem with it, and offers a more precise account.
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Overall Text Structure: Why check order separately?
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A distractor may name the real moves but reverse their sequence.
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Overall Text Structure: Content sequence vs rhetorical structure?
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Content names what appears; rhetorical structure states what each part does and how the parts connect.
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