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Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 Handwritten notes help students remember lectures better than typed notes do. Text 2 In the study behind that claim, the students who wrote by hand also took fewer notes and so had to decide what mattered. Typing fewer notes might work just as well.

How would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to Text 1?

  1. A. By suggesting that being selective, not writing by hand, may explain the benefit.Correct
  2. B. By agreeing that handwriting itself improves memory.
  3. C. By arguing that students should not take notes.
  4. D. By denying that the study exists.

Answer: A. By suggesting that being selective, not writing by hand, may explain the benefit.

Fewer notes, more thought.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. By agreeing that handwriting itself improves memory.
Text 2 offers another explanation.
C. By arguing that students should not take notes.
Not argued.
D. By denying that the study exists.
Text 2 discusses the study.

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