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Making a Generalization: 7-9: Official SAT mapping?
Think action → target → constraints.
Answer
Expression of Ideas → Rhetorical Synthesis.
Reading & WritingChapter 7: Rhetorical Synthesis
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Twenty concise Rhetorical Synthesis cards for Topic 7-9.
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Making a Generalization: 7-9: Three parts of the task?
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Research notes, writerly goal, and answer choices.
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Making a Generalization: 7-9: 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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Making a Generalization: 7-9: Is every true note relevant?
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No. Relevance depends on what the writer wants to accomplish.
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Making a Generalization: 7-9: Essential note?
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A note the sentence needs in order to accomplish the stated goal accurately.
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Making a Generalization: 7-9: 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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Making a Generalization: 7-9: Irrelevant note?
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A true note that does not advance this particular goal.
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Making a Generalization: 7-9: 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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Making a Generalization: 7-9: 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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Making a Generalization: 7-9: 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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Making a Generalization: 7-9: Note-dump trap?
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Joining many true facts without establishing a controlling relationship.
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Making a Generalization: 7-9: Goal-adjacent trap?
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A choice addresses the topic but performs a different rhetorical action.
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Making a Generalization: 7-9: 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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Making a Generalization: 7-9: 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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Making a Generalization: 7-9: Final five-part audit?
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Goal, relevance, factual accuracy, scope, and efficiency.
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Making a Generalization: Generalization
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A broader pattern inferred from multiple examples or observations.
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Making a Generalization: Safe generalization words
Think action → target → constraints.
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Can, may, often, and in these cases.
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Making a Generalization: Overgeneralization warning
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Two examples rarely justify all, always, never, or proves.
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Test whether the fact directly performs the goal.
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Making a Generalization: Under-generalization
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Restating only one example instead of expressing the supported pattern.
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Making a Generalization: Generalization test
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Can you point to at least two notes that instantiate every part of the pattern?
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