PT137.S3.Q8

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PrepTest 137 - Section 3 - Question 8

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Clark: Support Our local community theater often produces plays by critically acclaimed playwrights. ██ █████ ███ ██████████ ████████ ████ ████ ████████ ███████ ██ ███ ██ ███ ████ ███████ ██████████ ██ ███ █████████ ██ █████ ██ ████████ ███ █████ ██ ████████ ██████████ ███ ████ ████ ██ █████████ ██ ███ ███████ ████ ███████ ███ ████ ██ █ ██████████ █████████ ███████████

Summarize Argument

Clark concludes that Michaela must be a critically acclaimed playwright because her play is being featured at a local theater that values critical acclaim and often performs plays by such people.

Identify and Describe Flaw

Clark never establishes that every play performed by the theater is written by a critically acclaimed playwright. He would need to establish this in order to conclude that Michaela, by virtue of her work being performed there, is definitely critically acclaimed. Evidence that critical acclaim is one of the main factors considered by the theater is not enough to establish it is a necessary condition for being performed at the theater, since the theater may also perform many plays by writers without critical acclaim.

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The premises never establish that performance at the theater is necessary in order for a playwright to be critically acclaimed. The author assumes performance at the theater is sufficient for a playwright to be critically acclaimed. But the author never confuses the idea that performance at the theater is necessary for critical acclaim, because this idea isn't present in the argument.

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The argument never mentions any cause-and-effect relationship. The flaw is assuming that someone’s work being performed by the theater is sufficient to prove that they’re critically acclaimed.

treats one main ██████ ██████████ ██ ███ █████████ ██ █████ ██ ███████ ██ ██████ ██ ████ █ █████████ ████ ████ ██ ███ ██ █████ ███ █ ████ ██ ██ ████████

This describes how Clark assumes that critical acclaim is a necessary condition for having one’s play performed at the theater. Since it’s not actually established as necessary, there could be many plays performed that aren’t critically acclaimed.

uses as evidence █ ██████ ████ █████ ██ ██████ ██ ███████ ██ ██████████

The only source Clark appeals to is the production director, and there’s no reason to believe that this source is unreliable.

provides no evidence ████ █ ████████████ █████ ██████████ █████████ ██ ███ ██████ ██████ ████ ███ █████ ██ ███ ██ ███ █████ █████ ████████ ███ ██████████

Clark doesn’t claim that critical acclaim results from one’s play being chosen by the theater, so there’s no need to provide evidence for it.

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Analysis

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Flaw or descriptive weakening

Stems that ask us to articulate a flaw in the stimulus' argument, either in abstract terms or by pointing out a weakness.

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