Self-study
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Summary
Much of today’s literature is inferior. Most authors today are intellectually and emotionally inexperienced. Most authors’ works today lack intricacy and a focus on the significant. Good literature is characterized by intricacy and a focus on the significant. Hypatia’s most recent novel shows grace, complexity, and maturity exceeding her earlier works, and is therefore promising.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
Hypatia’s most recent work contains a property of good literature to a greater degree than her earlier works.
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This is unsupported because the stimulus doesn’t tell us how much Hypatia’s latest novel focuses on the significant.
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This is unsupported; while we know that much of today’s literature lacks the properties of good literature, grace is not identified as one of those properties.
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This is unsupported because a focus on the significant is identified as one of the properties of good literature, and we don’t know if Hypatia’s latest novel focuses on the significant.
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This is unsupported because we don’t know how much Hypatia’s novel focuses on the significant. We cannot conclude that the novel’s complexity alone makes it better than most literature today.
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This is strongly supported because we know that Hypatia’s novel has more complexity than her earlier works. Complexity here is taken to be synonymous with intricacy, meaning her recent work has a property of good literature.