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Understanding Student Notes: 7-1: 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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Understanding Student Notes Flashcards
Twenty concise Rhetorical Synthesis cards for Topic 7-1.
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Understanding Student Notes: 7-1: Three parts of the task?
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Research notes, writerly goal, and answer choices.
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Understanding Student Notes: 7-1: 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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Understanding Student Notes: 7-1: Is every true note relevant?
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No. Relevance depends on what the writer wants to accomplish.
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Understanding Student Notes: 7-1: Essential note?
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A note the sentence needs in order to accomplish the stated goal accurately.
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Understanding Student Notes: 7-1: 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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Understanding Student Notes: 7-1: Irrelevant note?
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A true note that does not advance this particular goal.
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Understanding Student Notes: 7-1: 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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Understanding Student Notes: 7-1: 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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Understanding Student Notes: 7-1: 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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Understanding Student Notes: 7-1: Note-dump trap?
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Joining many true facts without establishing a controlling relationship.
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Understanding Student Notes: 7-1: Goal-adjacent trap?
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A choice addresses the topic but performs a different rhetorical action.
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Understanding Student Notes: 7-1: 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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Understanding Student Notes: 7-1: 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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Understanding Student Notes: 7-1: Final five-part audit?
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Goal, relevance, factual accuracy, scope, and efficiency.
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Understanding Student Notes: Best first move with student notes?
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Label each note's job before deciding what belongs in the answer.
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Understanding Student Notes: Identity-note example
Think action → target → constraints.
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'Mara is an apprentice lantern maker' directly identifies Mara.
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Understanding Student Notes: Can one note do two jobs?
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Yes. A sentence may provide identity and a defining property together.
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Test whether the fact directly performs the goal.
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Understanding Student Notes: Understanding-notes trap
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Remembering a vivid detail but losing what role it could play.
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Understanding Student Notes: Fast note code
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I = identity, P = property/process, R = result, Q = qualification, C = context.
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