Reading & WritingChapter 5: Text Structure and Purpose
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Problem and Solution: 5-7: Official SAT mapping?
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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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Problem and Solution: 5-7: What is this topic's core focus?
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Identifying how a challenge, response, limitation, revision, or result advances the passage.
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Problem and Solution: 5-7: Content vs function?
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Content says what information appears; function explains what that information does in the text.
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Problem and Solution: 5-7: Best working strategy?
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label problem, attempt, limitation, revised response, and measured result
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Problem and Solution: 5-7: Primary trap?
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calling a proposed or attempted response completely successful
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Problem and Solution: 5-7: How does the target relate to the whole?
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a limitation can motivate an alternative, while a result evaluates what the response actually achieved
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Problem and Solution: 5-7: Why read before the target?
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To identify the point or expectation the target will develop, support, complicate, or revise.
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Problem and Solution: 5-7: Why read after the target?
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The later sentence often interprets the target or reveals why it matters.
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Problem and Solution: 5-7: Main vs secondary function?
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Choose the role that best explains the target's contribution to the passage, not a merely incidental effect.
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Problem and Solution: 5-7: Unsupported-purpose warning?
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Do not infer a hidden motive, audience reaction, or intention not established by the text.
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Problem and Solution: 5-7: Content-paraphrase warning?
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Repeating what a target says is not enough; state its rhetorical relationship.
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Problem and Solution: 5-7: Wrong-target warning?
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Check that the option describes the referenced portion rather than an adjacent sentence.
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Problem and Solution: 5-7: One-text boundary?
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Chapter 5 normally analyzes one text; relationships between two texts belong to Cross-Text Connections.
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Problem and Solution: 5-7: Transition boundary?
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Transition words can reveal structure, but choosing a transition belongs to the Transitions skill.
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Problem and Solution: 5-7: Final self-check?
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Does the answer state the correct rhetorical action, content target, scope, order, and degree of certainty?
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Problem and Solution: Proposed solution vs successful solution?
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A proposal is an intended response; success requires textual evidence of the outcome.
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Problem and Solution: Why describe an initial method's failure?
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To identify a limitation that motivates the alternative introduced next.
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Problem and Solution: Problem → attempt → limitation → revision means?
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The passage tests one response, finds a weakness, and develops another approach.
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Problem and Solution: Tradeoff after a solution functions how?
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It qualifies the solution by identifying a cost or remaining limit.
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Problem and Solution: Weak function answer: ‘describes the method.’ Why weak?
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It states content but omits how the method responds to the prior problem.
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