LSAT 31, Reading Comprehension, Q18, LSATHacks

RC Question 18 Explanation, by LSATHacks

DISCUSSION: It sounds like a traditional history will have a unified story (lines 33-35), and will either be a story (narrative) or an argument (causal narrative). (from lines 39-42.)

The wrong answers have one thing in common. They don’t describe history books. The passage is comparing Haraway’s work to traditional history books or scholarly articles. None of B-E even come close. 

A newspaper editorial? Math notes? A transcript? A TV show? None of those sound at all like “traditional history”. …you’re allowed to use common sense.

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1. CORRECT. This sounds like a story about science. That’s really all we’re looking for: a normal story. 
2. A TV series about a prediction doesn’t sound like traditional history. The passage compares Haraway’s book to other books. 
3. This sort of sounds like Haraway’s book. The transcript certainly doesn’t sound like a story. 
4. This sounds like…a newspaper article, not a historical book. If you want to study history, do you pick up the op-ed page of a newspaper? 
5. Mathematical notes aren’t history. They might be used as evidence when writing a traditional history, but they aren’t a history book.

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