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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?

  1. A. By suggesting that digitisation changes who finds the material and how, rather than simply widening access.Correct
  2. B. By agreeing that digitisation helps everyone equally.
  3. C. By arguing that the letters should be destroyed.
  4. 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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