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You won’t have that understanding if you haven’t read (or at least skimmed) the entire passage.\u003Cbr>To save time you can attempt this question after you have completed the usage and mechanics questions\u003Cbr>You may want to underline key phrases or transitions that help you decode the passage and that help you understand how its parts fit together.\u003Cbr>. |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n| Writing Strategy involve improving the effectiveness of a passage through careful revision and editing. Frequently, strategy questions will ask you to choose the most appropriate topic or transitional sentence for a paragraph. Almost as frequently, you will have to choose the best option for strengthening an argument by adding information or evidence. In other questions, you may also have to choose which sections of an argument can be deleted. You will also have to identify the purpose of a passage—its audience or its message—in other strategy questions. |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  |  |\n| The following strategy topics are covered in this section:\u003Cbr>􀁼 Transitions and Topic Sentences\u003Cbr>􀁼 Additional Detail and Evidence\u003Cbr>􀁼 Big Picture Purpose | |  |  |\n\n| TRANSITIONS AND TOPIC SENTENCES\u003Cbr>􀁼 These questions ask you to figure out the best way to open or conclude paragraphs within a passage. Here’s an example [2]\u003Cbr>Victorian novelists were often concerned with issues of character, plot, and the Victorian social world. Dickens’s\u003Cbr>novels, for example, were several-hundred-page-long works documenting the elaborate interweaving of his characters.\u003Cbr>[3]\u003Cbr>Their “modernist” novels tended to focus on the characters’\u003Cbr>inner lives, which they depicted through a stylistic technique called “stream of consciousness.” Several of the best\u003Cbr>known modernist novels were written in this stream-of consciousness. | |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n\n| Q 1. The writer wishes to begin Paragraph 3 with a sentence that strengthens the focus of the paragraph, while providing a transition from Paragraph 2 . Which of the following would be the best choice?\u003Cbr>A. In the early twentieth century, novelists began to reject the Victorian emphasis on social context and look for anew focus for the novel.\u003Cbr>B. Victorian novels ended with the Victorian era.\u003Cbr>C. In the early twentieth century, novelists further developed this emphasis on characters’ inner lives.\u003Cbr>D. World War I significantly affected British culture in the twentieth century. | |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n\n| The question asks you to choose a sentence that will simultaneously serve as a topic sentence (“a sentence that strengthens the focus of the paragraph”) for Paragraph 3 and as a transition sentence between the two paragraphs (“while providing a transition from Paragraph 2”) .\u003Cbr>In order to answer this question correctly, you need to understand what the two paragraphs are saying. You need to reread Paragraph 3 first. By developing a good sense of what that paragraph says, you can eliminate answer choices that clearly do not work as topic sentences.\u003Cbr>After you’ve eliminated any choices, make sure that you understand Paragraph 2 . From the remaining choices, you can identify the best transition sentence. | |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n\n| ADDITIONAL DETAIL AND EVIDENCE\u003Cbr>􀁼 These questions ask you to flesh out a paragraph by selecting the answer choice that provides the best additional detail or evidence. For example,\u003Cbr>[3]\u003Cbr>Their “modernist” novels tended to focus on the characters’ inner lives, which they depicted through a stylistic technique called “stream\u003Cbr>of consciousness.” [48] Several of the best-known modernist novels were written in this stream-ofconsciousness  ","cbCaibtB1OQ4kSf1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibtB1OQ4kSf1","pdf",215571,22,"English","# Expression of Ideas Question\n## Writing Strategy\n## Transitions and Topic Sentences\n## Additional Detail and Evidence\n## Big Picture / Purpose\n## Organization","[{\"question\":\"Why must students understand the passage’s content, tone, and purpose before answering Expression of Ideas questions?\",\"answer\":\"Because the strategy questions depend on comprehension of how the passage is written and what it is trying to communicate. 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