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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: 7-6: Official SAT mapping?
Think action → target → constraints.
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Expression of Ideas → Rhetorical Synthesis.
Reading & WritingChapter 7: Rhetorical Synthesis
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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept Flashcards
Twenty concise Rhetorical Synthesis cards for Topic 7-6.
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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: 7-6: Three parts of the task?
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Research notes, writerly goal, and answer choices.
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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: 7-6: Goal equation?
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Action + target + constraints, including audience or emphasis when stated.
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Test whether the fact directly performs the goal.
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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: 7-6: Is every true note relevant?
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No. Relevance depends on what the writer wants to accomplish.
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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: 7-6: Essential note?
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A note the sentence needs in order to accomplish the stated goal accurately.
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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: 7-6: 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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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: 7-6: Irrelevant note?
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A true note that does not advance this particular goal.
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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: 7-6: Minimal-sufficient-set rule?
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Use all information required by the goal and no detail that weakens focus.
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Test whether the fact directly performs the goal.
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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: 7-6: 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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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: 7-6: 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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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: 7-6: Note-dump trap?
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Joining many true facts without establishing a controlling relationship.
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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: 7-6: Goal-adjacent trap?
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A choice addresses the topic but performs a different rhetorical action.
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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: 7-6: Method/result distinction?
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Method tells what was done; result tells what was observed or measured.
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Test whether the fact directly performs the goal.
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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: 7-6: 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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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: 7-6: Final five-part audit?
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Goal, relevance, factual accuracy, scope, and efficiency.
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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: Precise-description formula
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Accurate identity + goal-relevant characteristic.
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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: Wrong-entity trap
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A true feature of a related entity does not describe the named target.
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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: Description vs evaluation
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Describe what notes establish; do not add unsupported praise or criticism.
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Test whether the fact directly performs the goal.
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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: Selective detail in description
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Use characteristics that explain the target under the stated goal.
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Describing a Person, Event, or Concept: Attribution audit
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Underline each entity and verify that its attached feature comes from the matching note.
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