LSAT 129 – Section 2 – Question 17

LSAT 129 - Section 2 - Question 17

June 2009

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Question QuickView	Type	Tags	Answer Choices	Curve	Question Difficulty	Psg/Game/S Difficulty	Explanation
PT129 S2 Q17	+LR	Weaken +Weak Analogy +An	A 15% 162 B 3% 159 C 5% 159 D 21% 161 E 56% 167	154 163 171	+Hardest	144.702 +SubsectionEasier

Poetry journal patron: Everybody who publishes in The Brick Wall Review has to agree in advance that if a poem is printed in one of its regular issues, the magazine also has the right to reprint it, without monetary compensation, in its annual anthology. The Brick Wall Review makes enough money from sales of its anthologies to cover most operating expenses. So, if your magazine also published an anthology of poems first printed in your magazine, you could depend less on donations. After all, most poems published in your magazine are very similar to those published in The Brick Wall Review.

Summarize Argument

The author concludes that if the patron’s magazine published an anthology of poems that were previously printed in regular issues of the magazine, it could depend less on donations. This is because most of the poems published in the magazine are similar to those published in a different magazine, the Brick Wall Review, and that magazine makes a lot of money from publishing an anthology.

Notable Assumptions

The argument assumes that what the Brick Wall Review experiences concerning its anthology issue is similar to what the patron’s magazine would experience by publishing an anthology issue.

Neither The Brick Wall Review nor the other magazine under discussion depends on donations to cover most operating expenses.

The conclusion is just that the anthology would allow the patron’s magazine to depend less on donations. Even if donations cover only half or less of operating expenses, an anthology might still decrease the need for donations.

Many of the poets whose work appears in The Brick Wall Review have had several poems rejected for publication by the other magazine under discussion.

We know most poems published in the patron’s magazine are similar to those in the BWR. That doesn’t imply the poets who publish in the BWR never get rejected by the patron’s magazine. Maybe only 10% of submissions are accepted; they’re still similar to what’s in the BWR.

The only compensation poets receive for publishing in the regular issues of the magazines under discussion are free copies of the issues in which their poems appear.

We already know that the poets in the BWR give up the right to monetary compensation for the anthology. So we already know that the cost is nonexistent or negligible when it comes to paying the poets.

The Brick Wall Review depends on donations to cover most operating expenses not covered by income from anthology sales.

We’re told the BWR makes enough from the anthology to cover most operating expenses. That acknowledges that there may be operating expenses not covered by the anthology. Pointing out something the author already acknowledges doesn’t weaken the argument.

The Brick Wall Review’s annual poetry anthology always contains a number of poems by famous poets not published in the regular issues of the magazine.

This points out a difference that could affect sales between the BWR’s anthology and an anthology made by the patron’s magazine. The BWR anthology contains stuff from famous poets that didn’t appear before. That’s not just an anthology of poems first printed in the magazine.

LSAT 129 – Section 2 – Question 17

LSAT 129 - Section 2 - Question 17

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