While courts have long allowed custom-made medical illustrations depicting personal injury to be presented as evidence in legal cases, the issue of whether they have a legitimate place in the courtroom is surrounded by ongoing debate and misinformation. ███
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The author doesn’t go so far as to argue for greater use; she just
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The objection raised in P2 is that
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The author isn’t arguing that textbook illustrations are bad—she’s arguing that custom illustrations are different from textbook ones in ways that make them particularly helpful and that don’t distort things, despite what some critics say. Her point isn’t to make us hate textbook illustrations; it’s to make us like custom illustrations. So even though she notes in P3 that textbook illustrations aren’t ideal, she only does so as a premise to support the real purpose of P3: to defend custom illustrations against critics.
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Descriptively accurate but not the primary purpose. The author briefly describes a controversy with custom illustrations but then launches into an argument about why the naysayers are wrong. Her point isn’t to explain why custom illustrations are controversial—it’s to show that the controversy is unfounded and that custom illustrations are actually quite helpful.
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Descriptively accurate but not the primary purpose. The author describes these differences to support a larger point: rather than distorting anything, custom illustrations just remove certain unnecessary details (ones that textbooks illustrations would include), which makes custom illustrations helpful for court cases.
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