medium · Gre Verbal
[[Students who take notes by hand must condense a lecture's ideas into their own words, because handwriting is too slow to permit word-for-word transcription.]] Typing, by contrast, is fast enough that many students record entire sentences without pausing to consider their meaning. Condensing material in one's own words is a form of deep processing, and decades of memory research show that deeply processed information is retained far longer than information that is merely copied. [[It follows that handwritten notes should produce more durable learning than typed notes.]] Colleges would therefore be wise to encourage, though not to require, note-taking by hand in lecture courses.
The two portions in boldface play which of the following roles in the argument above?
- The first is the main conclusion of the argument; the second is an intermediate conclusion that is drawn on the way to it.
- The first is a premise offered in support of the argument's conclusion; the second is the main conclusion of the argument.
- The first is a premise of the argument; the second is an intermediate conclusion that supports the argument's main conclusion.
- The first is an observation that the argument sets out to explain; the second is the explanation the argument provides for it.
- The first is a claim that the argument disputes; the second is the position the argument intends to establish in its place.
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