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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: 7-2: Official SAT mapping?
Think action → target → constraints.
Answer
Expression of Ideas → Rhetorical Synthesis.
Reading & WritingChapter 7: Rhetorical Synthesis
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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal Flashcards
Twenty concise Rhetorical Synthesis cards for Topic 7-2.
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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: 7-2: Three parts of the task?
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Research notes, writerly goal, and answer choices.
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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: 7-2: 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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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: 7-2: Is every true note relevant?
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No. Relevance depends on what the writer wants to accomplish.
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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: 7-2: Essential note?
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A note the sentence needs in order to accomplish the stated goal accurately.
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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: 7-2: 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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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: 7-2: Irrelevant note?
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A true note that does not advance this particular goal.
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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: 7-2: 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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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: 7-2: 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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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: 7-2: 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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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: 7-2: Note-dump trap?
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Joining many true facts without establishing a controlling relationship.
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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: 7-2: Goal-adjacent trap?
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A choice addresses the topic but performs a different rhetorical action.
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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: 7-2: Method/result distinction?
Think action → target → constraints.
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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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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: 7-2: 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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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: 7-2: Final five-part audit?
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Goal, relevance, factual accuracy, scope, and efficiency.
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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: What does emphasize ask you to do?
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Make a named relationship or feature especially prominent.
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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: Goal verb vs topic
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The topic says what the notes discuss; the goal verb says what the sentence must do.
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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: Target example
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In 'introduce the study's method,' method—not result—is the target.
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Test whether the fact directly performs the goal.
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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: Constraint example
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'To a general audience' constrains selection and level of explanation.
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Identifying the Rhetorical Goal: Goal paraphrase test
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Restate the task as: I must [action] [target] while [constraint].
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