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Selecting Relevant Information: 7-3: 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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Twenty concise Rhetorical Synthesis cards for Topic 7-3.
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Selecting Relevant Information: 7-3: Three parts of the task?
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Research notes, writerly goal, and answer choices.
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Selecting Relevant Information: 7-3: 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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Selecting Relevant Information: 7-3: Is every true note relevant?
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No. Relevance depends on what the writer wants to accomplish.
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Selecting Relevant Information: 7-3: 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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Selecting Relevant Information: 7-3: 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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Selecting Relevant Information: 7-3: Irrelevant note?
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A true note that does not advance this particular goal.
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Selecting Relevant Information: 7-3: 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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Selecting Relevant Information: 7-3: 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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Selecting Relevant Information: 7-3: 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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Selecting Relevant Information: 7-3: Note-dump trap?
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Joining many true facts without establishing a controlling relationship.
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Selecting Relevant Information: 7-3: Goal-adjacent trap?
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A choice addresses the topic but performs a different rhetorical action.
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Selecting Relevant Information: 7-3: 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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Selecting Relevant Information: 7-3: 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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Selecting Relevant Information: 7-3: Final five-part audit?
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Goal, relevance, factual accuracy, scope, and efficiency.
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Selecting Relevant Information: Relevance test
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Complete: This note helps the writer ___ the target by ___.
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Selecting Relevant Information: Interesting-detail trap
Think action → target → constraints.
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A memorable detail can be irrelevant to the requested purpose.
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Selecting Relevant Information: Direct vs indirect relevance
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Prefer the note that performs the goal directly unless context is necessary for understanding.
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Test whether the fact directly performs the goal.
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Selecting Relevant Information: Two-note relevance
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A comparison goal usually requires information about both entities.
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Selecting Relevant Information: Selection is not copying
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The best answer may paraphrase and combine notes while preserving meaning.
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