A significant amount

Answer choices

1. A

   No Impact4% picked this

   Many university libraries have begun to charge higher and higher fines for overdue books and periodicals as a way of passing on increased

   We need a way to argue that journal publishers aren't making more money these days, and this answer doesn't say anything related to them.

   4%
2. B

   No Impact2% picked this

   A university library's acquisition budget usually represents only a small fraction of its

   We need a way to argue that journal publishers aren't making more money these days, and this answer doesn't say anything related to them.

   2%
3. C

   No Impact13% picked this

   Publishing a scholarly journal is an expensive enterprise, and publishers of such journals cannot survive financially if

   We need a way to argue that journal publishers aren't making more money these days. This is a "timeless" answer. It doesn't show some comparative difference between several years ago and now that would allow us to say they aren't making more money (despite the fact that subscription prices have gone up)

   13%
4. D

   Correct79% picked this

   Most subscribers to scholarly journals are individuals, not libraries, and the subscription rates for individuals have generally remained unchanged

   Why this is right

   This gets at the strength of language in the conclusion: much more money than several years ago. This helps us argue that journal publishers are not making much more money than before, because even if they're making more money from colleges, the bulk of their business comes from individuals, for whom the subscription price never went up. In our evaluation of the argument, we didn't notice this modifier on the conclusion. We were only fighting the battle of "profits haven't gone up", but because of that modifier much more profitable, we really should have been fighting the battle of "it's not much more profitable", which would have better allowed us to think about ways to argue "it's not more profitable at all" as well as "yes, it's somewhat more profitable, but not much more profitable".

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

   79%
5. E

   No Impact2% picked this

   The majority of scholarly journals are published no more than four

   We don't care about how frequently they're published (unless it's changed from several years ago). We care about how many subscriptions the colleges are buying from the publishers, compared to several years ago.

   2%