The same notes, four goals

The same notes, four goals

Writing four different correct sentences from one fixed set of facts, where each is wrong for the other three goals.

1. 32.1Rhetorical synthesisStandard

   The writer wants to emphasise the scale of community involvement. Which choice best uses the notes?

   • AThe bakery reopened in 2023 under community ownership, with 214 residents buying a share.
   • BThe bakery opened in 1904 and closed in 2011.
   • CThe bakery now bakes 400 loaves a week.
   • DThe bakery had baked 1,200 loaves a week before it closed.
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   The bakery reopened in 2023 under community ownership, with 214 residents buying a share.

   Scale of involvement means the number of people, which only this choice supplies. The others are accurate and describe the bakery's history or output instead.

2. 32.2Rhetorical synthesisChallenge

   Builds on: Question 1 used the notes to make the bakery look supported; this asks the same notes to make it look diminished, and both are honest.

   The writer now wants to be honest about how much smaller the bakery is than before. Which choice best uses the notes?

   • AThe reopened bakery bakes 400 loaves a week, against 1,200 before it closed.
   • BThe bakery bakes 400 loaves a week.
   • CThe bakery closed in 2011 after more than a century.
   • DCommunity ownership has allowed the bakery to bake again.
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   The reopened bakery bakes 400 loaves a week, against 1,200 before it closed.

   A comparison of size needs both figures. Stating the current output alone is accurate and says nothing about how it compares, which is what the goal asked for.

3. 32.3TransitionsStandard

   Builds on: The reduced-output framing established in question 2 — this sentence has to push back on it without denying it.

   The bakery bakes a third of what it once did. _____, it is the only shop in the village that opens every day. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

   • AEven so
   • BConsequently
   • CSimilarly
   • DFor example
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   Even so

   The second sentence offers something positive against the diminished figure in the first, which is concession rather than consequence.

4. 32.4OrganizationChallenge

   Builds on: Question 2, which used the figure as a comparison — this asks where in a structure that comparison does its work.

   The article will cover the closure, the reopening, and the bakery's current place in the village. Where does the 1,200-loaf figure belong?

   • AWith the closure, where it establishes what was lost.
   • BWith the reopening, where it explains why residents bought shares.
   • CIn the final section, as the article's conclusion.
   • DIt should be left out, because it makes the bakery look diminished.
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   With the closure, where it establishes what was lost.

   The figure describes the bakery before 2011, so it belongs where the article is describing that period. Ending on it would leave the reader with decline as the last impression, and omitting an inconvenient true figure is not an editorial choice available to an honest article.