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Passage A.

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Critique of history writing · It's boring

It's typically too formal and abstract, and doesn't help students connect to history emotionally.

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Failed attempt at solution · Some historians have claimed to connect their writing to stories; they still write only boring stuff

Very few people historians actually incorporate stories into their writing.

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Context about legal writing · Values conformity, and doesn't have much creativity or humor

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Critique of legal writing · It's boring because it leaves out the story

Lawyers learn this kind of boring writing from teachers of legal writing.

Potential solution · Become more aware about the value of story in legal writing

Not sure if this will actually change how legal writing is taught, but it might help.

Passage Style

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Question Type

Analogy (RC)

In this Analogy question, we are looking for a phrase in passage B that is analogous to the role played by the highlighted phrase in passage A. We will only approach this question after reading both passages.

The phrase in passage A demonstrates that historical writing is dry and lifeless. This is the problem of historical writing that the author hopes to resolve. We are looking for a phrase from passage B that demonstrates a similar problem in legal writing.

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This isn’t the problem with legal writing, nor does it explain that legal writing is often boring, so it’s not analogous to the highlighted phrase from passage A.

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This phrase explains that legal writing is often dry and lifeless, which is the problem with legal writing that author B is addressing. Thus, this phrase is analogous with the phrase in question from passage A.

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This isn’t the problem with legal writing, nor does it explain that legal writing is often boring, so it’s not analogous to the highlighted phrase from passage A.

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This isn’t the problem with legal writing, nor does it explain that legal writing is often boring, so it’s not analogous to the highlighted phrase from passage A. Instead, this phrase shows that legal writing has the potential to be more interesting.

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This is a proposed resolution to the problem of legal writing; the phrase that we are looking for should capture the problem in legal writing, not propose a solution.

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