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Here’s your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by bakers.

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We’re expecting some from the butchers and candlestick makers any day.

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Check out the following passage...

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For the sake of logic and coherence, the best order for the paragraphs in this essay is what?

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And here are the potential answers...

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Let’s review what each of these paragraphs is about.

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Paragraph 1 tells us about the early days of fortune cookies.

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It also informs us of the debate going on about whether

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the original inventor was David (Tsung) Jung or Makoto Hagiwara.

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Paragraph 2 jumps to modern day, telling us about the crazy machines

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that can spew thousands of fortune cookies an hour.

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Paragraph 3 then takes us back in the day, and fills us in on how old school fortune

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cookie makers used to make the magic happen.

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To review, the essay currently goes from olden days to modern days and back to olden days again.

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There’s no way we can leave the essay as is, so we’ll eliminate choice (A),

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which says the paragraphs are cool like they are.

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Options (B) and (D) don’t do any better with the order of events.

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If (B) had its way, the essay would go from past to present then back to past,

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while (D) would take us backwards in time.

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Choice (C) is our best bet here.

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By placing Paragraph 3 before Paragraph 2, the essay is allowed to conclude in the present.

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