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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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Stated

In this Stated question, we are looking for something that is displayed in both passages.

Split Approach: After passage A, eliminate each answer choice that is not displayed in passage A. Then, after passage B, eliminate each remaining answer that isn’t displayed in passage B.

Sequential Approach: We will approach this question with the process of elimination. Eliminate each answer choice that isn’t displayed in both passages.

a concern with ███ ████████ ██ ████ ████████ ███████ ███ ████ █████████ ██ ██████████ ███████ ██████

Passage A doesn’t mention the development of writing skills, so we can eliminate (A).

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Passage A doesn’t discuss how history represents atypical views, so we can eliminate (B). Also, passage B doesn’t discuss how law handles atypical views.

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Author A is concerned with whether or not historical writing is engaged in storytelling, not whether it’s creative. Author A doesn’t say that creative historical writing is impossible so we can eliminate (A).

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This is supported in P2 of passage A. The author indicates that historical writing that lacks storytelling doesn’t engage students, and that some historians have started to focus on stories in order to resolve this problem.

This is also displayed in passage B, which says that legal writing could benefit from awareness of narrative storytelling.

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This desire isn’t mentioned at all in passage A, so we can eliminate (E). This desire isn’t mentioned in passage B either.

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