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* unlike your typical high school essay, '''SAT passages DO NOT follow the THESIS - EVIDENCE - CONCLUSION structure'''
* unlike your typical high school essay, '''SAT passages DO NOT follow the THESIS - EVIDENCE - CONCLUSION structure'''
** instead, these readings more generally follow (fiction excepted):
** instead, these readings more generally follow (fiction excepted):
*** background & introduction of the subject, problem, or argument
# background & introduction of the subject, problem, or argument
*** review origins of the topic
# review origins of the topic
*** develop the topic and how it was been understood, studied, or interpreted by others
# develop the topic and how it was been understood, studied, or interpreted by others
*** author approach and testing of the topic  
# author approach and testing of the topic  
*** draw a conclusion, call to action or summary of topic
# draw a conclusion, call to action or summary of topic