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SAT Writing & Language: Selecting an Effective Topic Sentence for a Paragraph 9 Views


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This SAT Writing video goes over an analysis of producers, suppliers and manufacturers on clean energy. Pretty cool huh!


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all right shmoopers on 9 of 11 you know we

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know you can't wait to get done with

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this either all right question which

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well this paragraphs about how the

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Institute will create teams for its [paragraph appears]

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projects so as we well know there's no I

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in team it's all about collaboration in [team all putting hands in circle]

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this case it's about collaboration

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between producers suppliers and

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manufacturers or maybe it's among them

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either way they all get included while

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it may be true that the Institute has

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connections across those three realms

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those connections are less relevant to

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the paragraph than what the Institute is

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doing with the connections there's no

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mention of luxury cars in the rest of [man with briefcase steps out of car]

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the paragraph so positioning it as the

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reason for collaboration misguides the

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reader there's also no mention of

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private investors or really any

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investors for that matter like where did

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that come from so let's keep the facts

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straights only about what's in the prose

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so the answer is a to facilitate

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