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Restaurant owner: The newspaper reporter who panned my restaurant acknowledges having Support no special expertise about food and its preparation. ███ ████████ ███ ███ ██ █ █████████ █████████ ██ ██ █ ████ ███████ ███ ██ ██ ███ █ ████ ██████████ ███████ █ █████████ █████ █████ ████ ███████ █ █████ ██████ ███ ███ ██ ███████ ████████ ██ ████████
Summarize Argument
The restaurant owner concludes that the critic who panned her restaurant is not a true restaurant critic. This is because the critic has no special expertise about food. The restaurant owner also supports her conclusion with an analogy to drama critics to imply that special training in a field is required to be a "true critic" in that field.
Identify Conclusion
The conclusion is about the critic who panned the owner’s restaurant: “he is not a true restaurant critic.”
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a
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This is a premise that the restaurant owner uses to demonstrate that the critic isn’t a true restaurant critic. She uses the analogy of a drama critic to show that special expertise is required to be called a “true critic.”
b
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This is support for the restaurant owner’s claim about the critic not being a “true critic.” A background in political reporting is very different than expertise in food and food preparation.
c
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The restaurant owner concedes that the critic is a good writer but maintains he isn’t a true critic. This is neither a premise nor a conclusion.
d
The newspaper reporter ███ ██████ ███ ██████████ ██ ███ █ ████ ██████████ ███████
This is what the restaurant owner is arguing for. Since the reporter lacks expertise in food and food preparation, and since newspapers wouldn't call someone a drama critic if the person has no special training in theater, the reporter isn’t a true restaurant critic.
e
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This is a premise used to show why the reporter in question isn’t a true critic. The author references drama critics to imply that special training in a field is required to be a true critic in that field.