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Summarize Argument
The author concludes that widespread use of encryption software will bring the writing of biographical history virtually to an end. This is because private correspondence, which is a central source of material for biographers, will be locked behind a password, and the author assumes that biographers typically will not have these passwords.
Identify Conclusion
The conclusion is the author’s prediction about what will happen to biographical writing: “The widespread use of encryption software, which makes electronic documents accessible by password only, will bring the writing of biographical history virtually to an end.”
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a
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This is a premise. The author believes this fact will prevent historians from accessing these materials as sources for biographies, which is why biographical writing will virtually come to an end.
b
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This is a paraphrase of the conclusion.
c
Historians will probably ███ ████ ██████ ██ ████ ██ ███ ███████ ██████████████ ███ ███████ ██ ██████ ███████ ██ ███ ███████
This is an assumption of the argument. The author believes historians probably won’t have passwords for private correspondence, preventing them from accessing these sources. This is why biographical writing will virtually come to an end.
d
In the future, ████████████ ██████ ██ ███ ████ ████████████ █████████ ████████ ████ ██ ██████████ ██ █████ █████████ ██ ███ █████████ ██████████
This is a premise. The author assumes that biographers won’t have the necessary passwords, which is why biographical writing will virtually come to an end.
e
Public figures' private ██████████████ ███ ███████ ███ ███ ████ ███████████ ███ █████████ ███████ ███ ███ ███████ ██ ████████████ ████████
This is something we can infer from the author’s argument. But this isn’t what the author is trying to prove to us.