Reading & WritingChapter 8: Transitions
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Cause and Effect: 8-4: Official mapping?
💡Name the relationship before the transition.
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Expression of Ideas → Transitions.
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Cause and Effect: 8-4: First move?
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Cover the blank and determine how the surrounding ideas relate.
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Cause and Effect: 8-4: Two-level analysis?
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Understand each idea, then identify the relationship between them.
ExampleCover the blank and paraphrase A → B.
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Cause and Effect: 8-4: Why not choose by sound?
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A phrase can sound familiar while signaling the wrong logical function.
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Cause and Effect: 8-4: Full-substitution test?
💡Name the relationship before the transition.
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Insert each option and reread the complete passage for syntax, logic, and nuance.
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Cause and Effect: 8-4: Addition or example?
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An example is a specific instance of a broad claim; addition supplies another compatible point.
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Cause and Effect: 8-4: Contrast or concession?
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Contrast marks difference; concession acknowledges an obstacle that the main claim survives.
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Cause and Effect: 8-4: Sequence or cause?
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Sequence gives order; cause says one idea produces or logically supports the next.
ExampleCover the blank and paraphrase A → B.
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Cause and Effect: 8-4: Restatement or addition?
💡Name the relationship before the transition.
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Restatement preserves meaning in clearer words; addition introduces independent information.
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Cause and Effect: 8-4: Example or specification?
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An example illustrates a class; specification narrows to the precise aspect meant.
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Cause and Effect: 8-4: What does punctuation prove?
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Nothing about the relationship; punctuation must not decide a Transitions item.
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Cause and Effect: 8-4: Local-only trap?
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A connector fits nearby words but contradicts the movement of the whole passage.
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Cause and Effect: 8-4: Causal audit?
💡Name the relationship before the transition.
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Verify that consequence is supported rather than merely chronological or correlated.
ExampleCover the blank and paraphrase A → B.
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Cause and Effect: 8-4: Close-option rule?
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Use the specific rhetorical move and full context to distinguish neighboring functions.
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Cause and Effect: 8-4: Final check?
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Relationship, function, substitution, punctuation neutrality, and one uniquely best answer.
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Cause and Effect: Cause/result relationship
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The later idea follows as an outcome or logical conclusion.
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Cause and Effect: Therefore check
💡Name the relationship before the transition.
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Can you defend 'because of the earlier information, this follows'?
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Cause and Effect: Direction trap
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Do not reverse which idea is reason and which is result.
ExampleCover the blank and paraphrase A → B.
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Cause and Effect: Correlation caution
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Association alone does not justify a consequence connector.
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Cause and Effect: Cause prediction
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A produces or supports result B.
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