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Argumentative writing

For the argumentative writing section, should I be drawing from outside sources? I did one of the practice ones on LSAC and I didn't think the instruction was clear enough. And am I to argue from one of the positions that LSAC gives samples of in response to the prompt? I know everyone says its akin to a "are you a human" test but I don't want to screw up on something easy like this for some technical or simple reason.

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OwenLavine
Monday, Feb 09

negate b and it presupposes another explanation for the mechanism by which Alzheimer's deleterious effects come out about, therefore, B isolates the mechanism to microglia

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OwenLavine
Friday, Jan 30

nothing can be in common if it is not shared by all.

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Friday, Jan 30

@CrispyOats if the broadcast networks were subsidized by subscriber fees there'd be no reason to make the distinction in the 3rd sentence, and if they were the argument would make the distinction they received more or less fees.

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PT134.S1.Q10
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OwenLavine
Monday, Jan 26

@Danny_F tech innovation causing job loss is threat to comfort and safety, so that is the motivating principle according to A, not social inertia.

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OwenLavine
Thursday, Jan 22

DO NOT BLOW THROUGH STUDY MATERIAL. GO SLOW, REVIEW EVERYTHING, TRACK ALL YOUR WRONG ANSWERS, PT WHEN YOU'RE CONFIDENT.

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PT119.S3.Q17
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OwenLavine
Wednesday, Jan 21

@nnkNewYork if one class of student is more likely to engage with the survey that is not the same thing as one class of student is a more representative sample. For example, lets say we have 10 dissatisfied students and 10 satisfied and 4 dissatisfied engage with the survey while 8 satisfied, that means its more likely a satisfied person engaged while not reflecting the true opinions of all students. Its a measure of how many students within the class (dissatisfied and satisfied) engage, not a measure of how many engage compared to the other. For example if 10/10 satisfied and dissatisfied students engaged, they'd both be 100% likely to engage, lets change the numbers, say there was 8 dissatisfied students and all 8 engaged, it'd still be 100% so they'd still be equally likely.

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OwenLavine
Edited Wednesday, Jan 14

Comparatives are no longer on required to be in every RC section.

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PT151.S2.Q21
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OwenLavine
Sunday, Jan 04

currently, currently, currently, currently. My new MO is to highlight all adverbs and adjectives. They are so important.

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PT103.S1.Q22
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OwenLavine
Saturday, Dec 27 2025

frequently vs singular comet, takes out B leaving D

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PT143.S4.Q5
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OwenLavine
Saturday, Dec 20 2025

The assumption i made was why would someone write a "very accurate rendering of the speeches of one of the characters, but a slipshod handling of all the other parts." The only person in the answer who has such a motivation would possibly be the actor who played that character, but granted, this is a ridiculous question.

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PT107.S3.Q12
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OwenLavine
Friday, Dec 19 2025

I would be so pissed if this was a question I got. I mean, come on.

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PT127.S3.Q25
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OwenLavine
Tuesday, Dec 16 2025

@ErnestChen same, it doesn’t specify that the seafood market the chef went to did not have farmed oysters.

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PT120.S4.Q22
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OwenLavine
Friday, Dec 12 2025

@SlippinJimmy2026 a is correct because if all was required was emotion provoking situation, not emotion provoking situation + inhibiting displays of emotion then inhibiting emotion would be irrelevant

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PT130.S4.Q23
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OwenLavine
Thursday, Nov 13 2025

I don't get how B is right, couldn't there be an unknown natural cause that accounts for it.

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PT102.S4.Q23
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OwenLavine
Wednesday, Nov 12 2025

The only hang up with B I have is that it leaves open the possibility that some other computer scientists do appreciate the advances which makes the conclusion true. If it said “none of the computer scientists” appreciate the advances the argument makes more sense. But alas, the answers are never perfect.

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PT112.S1.Q16
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OwenLavine
Tuesday, Nov 11 2025

@LualArok my assumption is that they bring up those six specific examples for a reason.

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PT131.S2.Q14
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OwenLavine
Monday, Nov 10 2025

I got D but believed the assumption was that the typical donut eater also applies the spreads to bring them to the four-donut calorie count.

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PT112.S1.Q18
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OwenLavine
Monday, Nov 10 2025

straight-up occam's razor

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PT134.S2.Q16
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OwenLavine
Saturday, Nov 08 2025

Wow, so as I understand it "therefore a belief in extraterrestrials is false as well" is not saying the belief extraterrestrials exists is false, but rather one cannot hold a false belief.

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PT122.S1.Q22
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OwenLavine
Friday, Oct 31 2025

@nathanbrowny2 gotta read books more my dude

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