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Let's summarize the learning outcomes you should be familiar with,
having completed the series of lectures on reasoning within the text questions.
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First, you should be able to define the structure
and function of a reasoning within the text question.
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You should also be able to distinguish these question types
from the first types we've discussed, foundations of comprehension.
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You should be able to take the same claim within a passage
and to evaluate differently based on how a question stem directs you to do so.
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In order to do that, you should also be able to see
when evidence has been presented by an author
as opposed to when an author simply gives his or her own opinion.
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In line with this, you should be able
to evaluate faulty sequences of cause and effect.
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An author needs to be accountable to basic laws of causality.
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As we read a CARS passage, we should be able to trace out
tenuous connections across wide distances
in a CARS passage just like we would
in a verbal conversation on a daily basis.
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You should be able to determine an author's message,
purpose, position, or point of view.
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And from there, infer their beliefs, assumptions,
and biases because like CARS, authors are people.
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A big clue for all of these things is tone and mental imagery.
These will really help you out a lot to infer a position of an author.
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We should be able to use the same tools of evaluating verbal claim
in a conversation to evaluate written claims in a CARS passage.
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You should evaluate the sources within a CARS passage
and ensure that they are both credible and objective.
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You should be able to identify when authors seem to be objective
but are really expressing their own opinion
through the mouthpiece of an external authority.
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Last but not least, you should be able to separate
your own opinion from an author,
place yourself into the perspective
of the arguer that the author presents
and evaluate from that perspective, arguments in the context
of fundamental rules of logic which still need to be adhered to.