ACT Preparation / Unit 18 ACT 1710 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What an Author Leaves Out
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The idea
Critical reading asks what a text omits: evidence against its claim, groups it affects, or facts that would complicate it, and whether the omission is accidental or intentional.
In practice
An article praising a new highway's speed that never mentions the homes removed to build it leaves out a cost.
Where people slip
What an argument leaves out is part of judging it.
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