ACT Preparation / Unit 17 ACT 1624 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sources and Their Perspectives
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The idea
A passage may draw on several sources: experts, witnesses, studies, records. Each source has its own perspective, and an author may be objective or may lean toward one view.
In practice
A mayor's statement and a resident's complaint about the same road project come from different positions.
Where people slip
Ask who is speaking, and what each source would have reason to say.
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