Reading & WritingChapter 7: Rhetorical Synthesis
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: 7-14: Official SAT mapping?
💡Think action → target → constraints.
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Expression of Ideas → Rhetorical Synthesis.
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: 7-14: Three parts of the task?
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Research notes, writerly goal, and answer choices.
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: 7-14: Goal equation?
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Action + target + constraints, including audience or emphasis when stated.
ExampleTest whether the fact directly performs the goal.
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: 7-14: Is every true note relevant?
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No. Relevance depends on what the writer wants to accomplish.
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: 7-14: Essential note?
💡Think action → target → constraints.
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A note the sentence needs in order to accomplish the stated goal accurately.
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: 7-14: Optional note?
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A note that can help but is not required for a complete goal-aligned sentence.
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: 7-14: Irrelevant note?
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A true note that does not advance this particular goal.
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: 7-14: Minimal-sufficient-set rule?
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Use all information required by the goal and no detail that weakens focus.
ExampleTest whether the fact directly performs the goal.
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: 7-14: Attribution check?
💡Think action → target → constraints.
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Keep every property, action, and result attached to the entity the notes assign it to.
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: 7-14: Scope check?
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Preserve words or conditions that limit who, when, where, or how strongly a claim applies.
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: 7-14: Note-dump trap?
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Joining many true facts without establishing a controlling relationship.
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: 7-14: Goal-adjacent trap?
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A choice addresses the topic but performs a different rhetorical action.
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: 7-14: Method/result distinction?
💡Think action → target → constraints.
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Method tells what was done; result tells what was observed or measured.
ExampleTest whether the fact directly performs the goal.
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: 7-14: Audience adaptation rule?
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Change selection and wording for the reader, but never change or erase essential facts.
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: 7-14: Final five-part audit?
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Goal, relevance, factual accuracy, scope, and efficiency.
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: Synthesis vs list
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A synthesis organizes selected facts around one controlling relationship.
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: Compression move
💡Think action → target → constraints.
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Merge overlapping identity details and subordinate background to the main comparison or result.
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: Efficient does not mean shortest
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The best sentence can be longer if every included detail is necessary to accomplish a complex goal.
ExampleTest whether the fact directly performs the goal.
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: Multi-note trap
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Using every note in its original order rather than prioritizing by purpose.
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Combining Multiple Notes Efficiently: Capstone audit
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Can you name the sentence's action, target, essential notes, relationship, and excluded detail?
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