Self-study
Conclusion Community organizations wanting to enhance support for higher education programs need to convince the public that such programs benefit society as a whole. ██████ ████ ████████ █████ ███ ██████ ████ ██████████ ██ ██ ████ ███████ ███ ████████ ██ ███ ███ ██████ ██ ███████ ████ █████████ █████ ██ ████ ██ ██████████ █████████ ████ ██ ██ ██ ███ ████ ██ ███████ ████████ ████ ███ ████ ██ ██████████ ████ █ ██████████ █████ ███████ ██ ████████
Summarize Argument
Community organizations who want more support for certain programs must convince the public that those programs benefit society, because this would make the public more receptive to supporting the programs.
Identify Conclusion
The conclusion is a need that community organizations will have to fulfill in order to obtain their goal: “Community organizations wanting to enhance support for higher education programs need to convince the public that such programs benefit society as a whole.”
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a
Community organizations seeking ██ █████████ ██████ █████████ ████████ ████ ████████ ███ ██████ ████ █████ ████████ ███████ ███████ ██ █ ██████
This rephrases the conclusion.
b
It is easier ██ ███ ███ ██████ ██ ███████ ████████ ████ ███ ████ ██ ██████████ ████████ ████ ██ ██ ██ ███ ████ ██ ███████ ████████ ████ ███ ████ ██ ██████████ ████ █ █████ ███████ ██ ████████
This is a premise. It supports the conclusion that some community organizations need to convince the public that higher education programs benefit society as a whole.
c
It is easy ██ ███ ███ ██████ ██ ███████ ████ █████████ ███████ ████ ████████ ██ ████ ██ ██████████ ███████ ██ █ ██████
This is a premise. The example of road building is used to illustrate how gaining support for programs that benefit everyone is easier than gaining support for programs that benefit only a small group of people.
d
Convincing the public ████ ██████ █████████ ████████ ████ ███████ ███████ ██ █ █████ █████ ███ ██████ ████ █████████ ██ █████ █████████
This is a premise, not the conclusion. The idea that the public would be more receptive to supporting higher education programs if they benefitted society as a whole is evidence for why community organizations must convince the public of these programs’ benefit to society.
e
Higher education is ███████ ██ ████ ████████ ██ ████ ████ ███ ██████████ ██ ███████ ██ █ ██████
The author doesn’t make this argument. The road building example illustrates that it’s easier to gain support for programs that benefit everyone, but the author never says that higher education is beneficial to everyone; only that some organizations should convince the public that this is true.