Self-study
Conclusion A good movie reviewer should be able to give favorable reviews of movies that are not to his or her taste. ███████ █████ █████████ ████ ████ ██ ████ ███████ █████ ██████ ███ ████ █████████ ████ ███ ███████ ██████ ████████ ████ █████ ██ ████ ███████████ ███ ███ ████████ ██ █████ ██████████ ██ ███████ ██ ████ ████████ ██ ██ ████ ██████ █████████ █████ ██████ ████ █████ █████ ███████ ███ ██ ████ ████ ██████ ██████████ ███████
Summarize Argument
The author concludes that a good movie reviewer should be able to give favorable reviews of movies that she personally may not like. This is because the purpose of movie reviewers is to help people figure out what movies they might enjoy. The unstated assumption is that to help people figure out what they might like, a movie reviewer can’t just give negative reviews based on her own personal taste.
Identify Conclusion
The conclusion is what the author thinks a good movie reviewer should be able to do: “A good movie reviewer should be able to give favorable reviews of movies that are not to his or her taste.”
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a
Movie reviewers' tastes ██ ██████ ███ ████ █████████ ████ ███ ███████ ██████ ████████ ████ █████ ██ ████ ███████████
This is part of the context. Movie reviewers have different, better tastes. But the author pivots to argue that a good reviewer should be able to set aside their personal taste and give favorable reviews to movies she might not like.
b
If a movie ████████ ██ █████ ██ ██ ███ ██████ ██ ████ ██ ████ █████████ ███████ ██ ██████ ████ ███ ███ ██ ███ ██ ███ ██████
This is an almost verbatim restatement of the conclusion.
c
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This is part of the premise.
d
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This is part of the context.
e
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This is a premise. The author doesn’t offer anything to help prove the role of movie reviewers. Rather, he uses the claim about a movie reviewer’s role to assert what a good movie reviewer should be able to do.