ACT® · Reading: The Section, the Genres, and the Formats
Informational Texts: Humanities, Social Science, Natural Science
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- How it worksHow does a natural-science text build meaning out of mechanism and evidence instead of a narrator's voice?
- How it worksHow does a social-science text use a study, a number and a caveat to make one claim?
- Worked exampleShow me the structure of a humanities text arguing that a forgotten composer changed harmony.
- Going furtherWhat changes about note-taking when an informational text is dense with technical vocabulary?
- Ties togetherHow do the humanities, social-science and natural-science subject areas share one set of reading skills?
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An informational passage reports that a study of 321 households found food waste fell 30 percent after a weekly collection began, and then notes that the households had volunteered for the trial. What is the shape of the argument?End of topic.