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Supporting a Generalization: 7-10: 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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Supporting a Generalization: 7-10: Three parts of the task?
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Research notes, writerly goal, and answer choices.
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Supporting a Generalization: 7-10: 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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Supporting a Generalization: 7-10: Is every true note relevant?
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No. Relevance depends on what the writer wants to accomplish.
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Supporting a Generalization: 7-10: Essential note?
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A note the sentence needs in order to accomplish the stated goal accurately.
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Supporting a Generalization: 7-10: 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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Supporting a Generalization: 7-10: Irrelevant note?
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A true note that does not advance this particular goal.
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Supporting a Generalization: 7-10: 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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Supporting a Generalization: 7-10: 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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Supporting a Generalization: 7-10: 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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Supporting a Generalization: 7-10: Note-dump trap?
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Joining many true facts without establishing a controlling relationship.
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Supporting a Generalization: 7-10: Goal-adjacent trap?
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A choice addresses the topic but performs a different rhetorical action.
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Supporting a Generalization: 7-10: 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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Supporting a Generalization: 7-10: 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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Supporting a Generalization: 7-10: Final five-part audit?
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Goal, relevance, factual accuracy, scope, and efficiency.
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Supporting a Generalization: Support formula
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General claim + representative detail A + representative detail B + explicit link.
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Supporting a Generalization: Evidence without link
Think action → target → constraints.
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Details may be accurate yet fail to support a generalization if their relevance is unstated.
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Supporting a Generalization: Representative evidence
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A detail that actually exemplifies the feature named in the general claim.
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Test whether the fact directly performs the goal.
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Supporting a Generalization: One-example trap
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A single case cannot by itself demonstrate a pattern across multiple approaches.
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Supporting a Generalization: Support audit
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For each detail, complete: This supports the claim because ___.
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