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SAT Writing and Language Drill 6.7 Effective Language Use 1 Views


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What does a Univeristy professor and a banjo player have in common? Watch this SAT Writing video to find out!


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All right as writing shmoop er's the convenience question again

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here seven of eleven I learned that lesson first hand

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from my father who was a psychology professor at the

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university of chicago and a banjo player In the previous

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paragraph the author discusses how school is sometimes the only

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place all students are treated equally Let's go back there

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and think about this and remember and the last question

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this is the one we added that sentence to anchor

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things The one in america we do not reserve arts

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and education for the snooty So how does that affect

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things Well in this paragraph the author says hey knows

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the score in part because his father was a teacher

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by referring back to the previous paragraph while introducing a

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new key character in the essay Well the author smoothly

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transition between subjects or from the theoretical to the personal

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information about father's career and musical instrument preference comes out

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of nowhere without any reference to the previous paragraph Yeah

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that's the case Ah no matter the order in which

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the information's presented and inserting i still isn't enough to

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link the two paragraphs so well yeah it is just 00:01:12.188 --> [endTime] leave it as it is Right there we're done

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