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The author concludes that using a journalistic writing style increases the chances that a novel will be popular. This is based on the fact that many popular novels have stylistic elements commonly associated with journalistic writing. In addition, many authors of popular novels began their careers as journalists.

The author assumes there’s a correlation between novels being popular and having a journalistic writing style or being written by people who were journalists. But this overlooks the possibility that just as many unpopular novels are written using a journalistic style or by authors who started their careers as journalists. So there might not be a correlation between popularity and having a journalistic style.

The author doesn’t rely on conditional reasoning, so there isn’t a confusion of sufficient and necessary conditions. The author doesn’t present anything that’s required for a novel to be popular.

The author notes that many authors of popular novels began their careers as journalists. But this doesn’t imply a belief about what proportion of journalists could be become novelists if they wanted to.

The author doesn’t need to specify what is needed for a novel to be considered popular. The premises tell us there are popular novels that have a journalistic style. What exactly constitutes “popular” doesn’t affect the reasoning of the argument.

The author fails to consider that just as many unpopular novels have stylistic elements commonly associated with journalism. If this is true, this undermines the author’s assumption that there’s a correlation between having a journalistic style and popularity of a novel.

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