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Tallulah: The columnist attributes the decline of interest in novels to consumerism, technology, and the laziness of people who prefer watching television to reading a novel. ████████ ██ ████████ ████ ███████████ ███ █████████ ███ ██████████ █████████ █████████ ██ ██ ██████ ████████ ████ ████████████ ███████ ██ ██████████ ██ ████ █████████████████ ████ ██ ██ ██ ███████████ ███ ████████████████████ ████ ████ ███████████ ██████████ ████████████ █████████ ███ █████ ██ █████ █████ ███ █████████ ██████████
Summarize Argument: Counter-Position
Tallulah concludes that the columnist overlooked important evidence in his explanation of the decline of interest in novels. The columnist’s conclusion (which Tallulah references as context for her argument) is that consumerism, technology, and laziness are causing the decline of interest in novels. To support her statement that the columnist’s conclusion is based on incomplete evidence, Tallulah references the difference in quality between contemporary fiction and other types of writing: she says that much of contemporary fiction is low-quality, whereas high quality writing can be found in newspapers, magazines, professional journals, and other types of books.
Identify Conclusion
Tallulah’s conclusion is that the columnist’s idea is based on incomplete evidence: “In reaching this conclusion, the columnist has overlooked important evidence.”
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Contemporary fiction is █████████ ███████ ██ ██ ████████████ ███████████ ███ ██ ████ ███████ ████████
b
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c
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d
People read as ████ ██ ████ ████ ███ ███ ████ ██ ███ █████ ████ ███ ████ ███ ███ ███████
e
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