Self-study
Mark: Conclusion Advances in technology have caused the decline of newspaper sales. ████ ███ ██ ████████ ██ ████████ ██ ███ ████████ ██ ██ ███████ ███ ██ ███ ████ ██ ████ ██ █████ █████████ ███ ████████ ████ ██ ████ █████
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Speaker 1 Summary
Mark concludes that advances in technology have caused the decline of newspaper sales. As support, Mark asserts that news can be reported in online articles as it happens and at any time of the day. This isn’t something a print newspaper can do.
Speaker 2 Summary
Fatuma concludes that technology is not the reason that newspapers are losing their audience to the Internet. As support, Fatuma asserts that writing in print news articles is too long, whereas online news articles are not. The lengthy print news articles are a convention of print news. They aren’t a product of technology.
Objective
We’re looking for a point of disagreement. The speakers disagree about whether technology is the cause of the decline in newspaper sales.
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Mark and Fatuma disagree over ███ █████ ██ █████ ███ ██ ███ ██████████
a
Readers are abandoning ██████████ ██ █████ ██ ████ ████████ ██ ███ ████████ ███████ ██ ███ █████ ████ █████ ████ ██████ ██ ███ █████████
This is a point of disagreement. Mark cites the fact news can appear instantly online as a reason that technology has caused the decline in newspaper sales. Fatuma does not blame timing. She instead blames the length of newspaper articles.
b
Newspaper articles are ███ █████
Mark does not express an opinion about this. He doesn’t discuss the length of newspaper articles. Although we can infer he doesn’t think length is the reason newspaper sales are declining, that doesn’t mean he thinks newspaper articles are of an appropriate length.
c
News articles on ███ ████████ ███ ██ ███ ██████
Mark does not express an opinion about this. He doesn’t discuss the length of online articles. Although we can infer he doesn’t think length is the reason newspaper sales are declining, that doesn’t mean he thinks online articles do or do not get to the point.
d
Newspaper writing is ████████ ██ ███████████ ████ ██ ███ ███ ██ ███ ████████ █████████████ ██ ███ █████
Mark doesn’t express an opinion about this. Although he does not believe newspaper conventions are the cause of declining newspaper sales, he might still agree that these bad conventions exist. He can think these conventions, while bad for readers, don’t cause lower sales.
e
No print newspaper ███ ████████ ███████ ████ ██ ████ ██ ██ ███ ██ █████████ ██ ███ █████████
Fatuma doesn’t express an opinion about this. Although she thinks the timing afforded by technology is not the cause of declining newspaper sales, she can still agree that newspapers cannot publish as fast as online publications can.