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This SAT Writing video on The Well-Rounded Curriculum focuses on the fate of students who take art classes. Sound ominous enough?
Transcript
- 00:02
Okay writing shmoop er's just to maurine this section here
- 00:05
we go students in school that's what we're going to
- 00:08
analyze here and let's go hunt for it here is
- 00:10
top of the last paragraph The fact is that most
- 00:13
students in school who take art classes are not going
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- 00:16
to be professional musicians painters dancers or actors and boy
- 00:22
is that true So he kind of like rubbing it
- 00:25
in and they end up working here it's much like
- 00:28
meat on never end up bitter and angry about it
- 00:31
either Just mind you i'm just saying well let's fix
- 00:33
this thing think about it allowed here to be a
- 00:35
student You must be in school since we're talking about
- 00:39
students in their natural habitat school the word students it's
- 00:43
efficient all on its own right Why we have to
- 00:46
say students in school like soon out of school that
- 00:48
doesn't make any sense but it's pretty safe to assume
- 00:50
that students are taking their classes in school saying students
- 00:53
and in school is redundant repetitive and boy noticed how
- 00:56
many problems we've had where redundancy is like the enemy
- 01:00
here So good word to the wise if you think
- 01:02
about all this the same concepts true for students in
- 01:05
academic environments that's repetitive while people is technically fine it's
- 01:10
not specific enough because it could mean people who aren't
- 01:12
enrolled in school but who happened to be taking art
- 01:15
classes or some weird thing like that And this sentence
- 01:18
is specifically about people who are enrolled in school So
- 01:21
we'll stick with students as our answer Be students in
- 01:24
school Kids stay in school unless it's really expensive and
- 01:29
you're going to be a carpenter anyway Then just go 00:01:32.025 --> [endTime] to carpentry school about that
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