Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT110 S2 Q20 Explanation

Professor Chan: The literature department’s

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TopicsPrinciple-Strengthen

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Stimulus

Professor Chan: The literature department's undergraduate courses should cover only true literary works, and not as advertisements.

Professor Wigmore: Advertisements might or might not be true literary works but they do have a powerfully detrimental effect on society-largely because people cannot discern their real messages. The literature department's courses give students the critical skills to analyze and understand texts. Therefore, the study of advertisements in its undergraduate courses.

What this question is testing

Principle-Strengthen

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
20.

Which one of the following principles most strongly supports Professor

Answer choices

  1. Trap1% picked this

    Advertisements ought to be framed in such a way that their real messages

  2. Trap10% picked this

    Any text that is subtly constructed and capable of affecting people’s thought and action ought to be considered

  3. Trap4% picked this

    All undergraduate students ought to take at least one course that focuses on the development

  4. Correct85% picked this

    The literature department’s courses ought to enable students to analyze and understand any text that could have a

    Why this is right

    Answer D is correct.

    Skill tested: Principle-Strengthen · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

  5. Trap1% picked this

    Any professor teaching an undergraduate course in the literature department ought to be free to choose the material to

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