Craft and StructureVery hardTwo views on digitising an archive
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The archive's decision to digitise its letters will make them available to everyone.
Text 2
Digitising the letters makes them available to everyone with a fast connection and a search term. The researchers who found the archive's best material found it by browsing shelves, which a search box does not allow.
How would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to Text 1?
- A. By suggesting that digitisation changes who finds the material and how, rather than simply widening access.Correct
- B. By agreeing that digitisation helps everyone equally.
- C. By arguing that the letters should be destroyed.
- D. By denying that the archive has a search box.
Answer: A. By suggesting that digitisation changes who finds the material and how, rather than simply widening access.
A search box is not a shelf.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By agreeing that digitisation helps everyone equally.
- Text 2 qualifies the claim.
- C. By arguing that the letters should be destroyed.
- Not argued.
- D. By denying that the archive has a search box.
- Text 2 assumes there is one.
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