Question #956

how can the why test help me best determine the conclusion.

Started by Elizabeth25 · started 2023-03-04 05:11 · last activity 2023-03-07 01:47 · 1 reply

I got lucky and got this answer right. I also was able to proper identify the two conclusions. However, I ended up choosing the nevertheless one. I did the "why" test and somehow still ended up with the wrong main point. If you apply the test: why has one resource been ignored for too long because federal expenditures for nationwide soil conservation programs have remained at ridiculously low levels. Makes sense to me and so does the other way around. What am I missing or doing wrong here. The why test has been working thus far during my study and I don't want to lose this critical application.

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  1. Emil-Kunkin · 2023-03-07 01:47

    Hi, sometimes the conclusion will be broken up, as it is here. The two sentences at play are more or less expressing the same idea, that we are not doing enough to deal with topsoil. While I think we could make a slightly stronger chase that the nevertheless part supports the too long part than for the opposite, I would argue that it doesn't really matter. The right answer could be a paraphrase of either of those statements. When it happens that there are two parts of the argument expressing the same idea, there's a good chance the authors main point is split up between the two sentences, or the author repeats themselves.

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