PrepTest 136 - Section 3 - Passage 2 - Question 12

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Passage A.

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Critique of history writing · It's boring

It's typically too formal and abstract, and doesn't help students connect to history emotionally.

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Failed attempt at solution · Some historians have claimed to connect their writing to stories; they still write only boring stuff

Very few people historians actually incorporate stories into their writing.

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Context about legal writing · Values conformity, and doesn't have much creativity or humor

Critique of legal writing · It's boring because it leaves out the story

Lawyers learn this kind of boring writing from teachers of legal writing.

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This is an Inference question from the perspective of the author of passage B. Author B says that legal writing tends to focus on the abstract form of the case, and that legal writing often emphasizes conformity over creativity.

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Author B does say that legal writing is often done badly, but the reason for this isn’t because they’re missing explicit advice from professors. Instead, author B thinks that these lawyers write badly because this is the way they were taught to write.

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Actually, author B thinks that the problem with legal writing is that it ignores the narrative aspect, so we can infer that author B would disagree with (B).

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Actually, author B says that legal writing is often written badly, so the author probably wouldn’t expect the document to be well-crafted.

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This is supported. In P4, author B says that legal writing removes the human narrative aspect, so author B would agree with this prediction.

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Unsupported. Author B never indicates that legal writing neglects to make these relevant connections.

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