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What does a Univeristy professor and a banjo player have in common? Watch this SAT Writing video to find out!
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- 00:03
All right as writing shmoop er's the convenience question again
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here seven of eleven I learned that lesson first hand
- 00:10
from my father who was a psychology professor at the
- 00:14
university of chicago and a banjo player In the previous
- 00:20
paragraph the author discusses how school is sometimes the only
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- 00:23
place all students are treated equally Let's go back there
- 00:26
and think about this and remember and the last question
- 00:29
this is the one we added that sentence to anchor
- 00:31
things The one in america we do not reserve arts
- 00:34
and education for the snooty So how does that affect
- 00:38
things Well in this paragraph the author says hey knows
- 00:41
the score in part because his father was a teacher
- 00:44
by referring back to the previous paragraph while introducing a
- 00:48
new key character in the essay Well the author smoothly
- 00:51
transition between subjects or from the theoretical to the personal
- 00:55
information about father's career and musical instrument preference comes out
- 00:58
of nowhere without any reference to the previous paragraph Yeah
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that's the case Ah no matter the order in which
- 01:04
the information's presented and inserting i still isn't enough to
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link the two paragraphs so well yeah it is just 00:01:12.188 --> [endTime] leave it as it is Right there we're done
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