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I went through the RC in the 70's to try to glean some more information and feel more comfortable going into the sections. Nothing super profound, but I was at least able to categorize them by their most common types. Feel free to add any other common structures that you find!

Straight/Regular Passages:

  • Topical Focus: Intro – Development – Reasoning

  • Defend an Opinion: Intro – Opinion – Reasoning – Refute Opposing Opinion (last two can be switched)

  • Phenomenon-Hypothesis: Intro/Phenomenon – Hypothesis – Reasoning/Refuting Opposing Hypothesis (last two can be switched)

    • Comparative Passages:

    Passage A:

  • Stating an Opinion: Intro – Development – Conclusion

  • Defending a Thesis: Intro – Implications – Reasoning

    • Passage B:

  • Building off of a position in Passage A and either refuting it or developing it

  • Introducing new factors and a new position of its own

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      doneill3389668
      Friday, Jan 27 2017

      This is great. I have yet to look at the 70s RC, but have been doing something similar with 30s,40s and now the beginning of the 50s.

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