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Oscar Publishing currently invites unsolicited manuscripts by authors of both academic textbooks and non-academic works of non-fiction. Since writers of academic textbooks usually adhere to prescribed curriculum's, their manuscripts tend to be more structured than those produced by writers of non-academic works. Therefore, the CEO has recommended to the company’s board of directors that the company stop publishing non-academic works in order to save time on the editing process.
Which of the following most helps to evaluate the validity of the CEO’s recommendation?
A. Whether manuscripts for non-academic works of non-fiction are typically assigned to experienced editors
B. Whether non-academic works are not required to be as structured as academic textbooks
C. Whether checking that the manuscripts for academic textbooks have followed the guidelines prescribed in curriculum's adds up a considerable amount of time to the editing of these scripts
D. Whether some manuscripts for academic textbooks do not follow the standard curriculum prescribed in most universities
E. Whether writers of academic textbooks are usually professors who base their books on the same syllabus that is prescribed in the universities where they teach
Which of the following most helps to evaluate the validity of the CEO’s recommendation?
A. Whether manuscripts for non-academic works of non-fiction are typically assigned to experienced editors
B. Whether non-academic works are not required to be as structured as academic textbooks
C. Whether checking that the manuscripts for academic textbooks have followed the guidelines prescribed in curriculum's adds up a considerable amount of time to the editing of these scripts
D. Whether some manuscripts for academic textbooks do not follow the standard curriculum prescribed in most universities
E. Whether writers of academic textbooks are usually professors who base their books on the same syllabus that is prescribed in the universities where they teach
28 May 2019, 03:11
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Oscar Publishing currently invites unsolicited manuscripts by authors of both academic textbooks and non-academic works of non-fiction. Since writers of academic textbooks usually adhere to prescribed curriculum's, their manuscripts tend to be more structured than those produced by writers of non-academic works. Therefore, the CEO has recommended to the company’s board of directors that the company stop publishing non-academic works in order to save time on the editing process.
Which of the following most helps to evaluate the validity of the CEO’s recommendation?
A. Whether manuscripts for non-academic works of non-fiction are typically assigned to experienced editors
B. Whether non-academic works are not required to be as structured as academic textbooks
C. Whether checking that the manuscripts for academic textbooks have followed the guidelines prescribed in curriculum's adds up a considerable amount of time to the editing of these scripts
D. Whether some manuscripts for academic textbooks do not follow the standard curriculum prescribed in most universities
E. Whether writers of academic textbooks are usually professors who base their books on the same syllabus that is prescribed in the universities where they teach
Which of the following most helps to evaluate the validity of the CEO’s recommendation?
A. Whether manuscripts for non-academic works of non-fiction are typically assigned to experienced editors
B. Whether non-academic works are not required to be as structured as academic textbooks
C. Whether checking that the manuscripts for academic textbooks have followed the guidelines prescribed in curriculum's adds up a considerable amount of time to the editing of these scripts
D. Whether some manuscripts for academic textbooks do not follow the standard curriculum prescribed in most universities
E. Whether writers of academic textbooks are usually professors who base their books on the same syllabus that is prescribed in the universities where they teach
The right answer should be C. The best way to solve this question is to first recognise the category and therefore, what must be done. This is an evaluate the conclusion question, which means that we must identify the conclusion, and pick an option that allows us to say whether the conclusion is good or bad.
Conclusion: "the company stop publishing non-academic works in order to save time on the editing process"
We don't know if this is a valid conclusion yet or not. The option we pick should help us decide this, based on how we answer that option. Hence, the correct answer, depending on how we answer the option, should tell us that the conclusion is both sound AND invalid.
A - If yes, the increase in editing time will not be that great, if no, it will be much greater. However, both these answers lead us to the same conclusion that stopping publication of non-academic works will save time. OUT
B - This option is irrelevant. We don't care what non-academic (or academic) works look like, since there is no mention about the types of works Oscar Publishing prefers to publish. OUT
C - If the answer to this is no, then the conclusion remains valid, as it would save a lot of time to not publish non-academic work. However, if the answer to this is yes, then the conclusion suddenly becomes invalid, as it means that a lot of editing time will be used up regardless of whether the work is academic or not. This is what we're looking for, since the answer to this option tells us whether the conclusion is sound or not. CORRECT
D - This is irrelevant for the same reason that B is. We do not care about the content that is being published, only whether said content would take time to edit or not. OUT
E - This again is irrelevant for the same reason that B, D are. The conclusion is specifically about saving time in editing, not about the content of the books themselves. OUT
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Oscar Publishing currently invites unsolicited manuscripts by authors of both academic textbooks and non-academic works of non-fiction. Since writers of academic textbooks usually adhere to prescribed curriculum's, their manuscripts tend to be more structured than those produced by writers of non-academic works. Therefore, the CEO has recommended to the company’s board of directors that the company stop publishing non-academic works in order to save time on the editing process.
Which of the following most helps to evaluate the validity of the CEO’s recommendation?
A. Whether manuscripts for non-academic works of non-fiction are typically assigned to experienced editors
B. Whether non-academic works are not required to be as structured as academic textbooks
C. Whether checking that the manuscripts for academic textbooks have followed the guidelines prescribed in curriculum's adds up a considerable amount of time to the editing of these scripts
D. Whether some manuscripts for academic textbooks do not follow the standard curriculum prescribed in most universities
E. Whether writers of academic textbooks are usually professors who base their books on the same syllabus that is prescribed in the universities where they teach
Which of the following most helps to evaluate the validity of the CEO’s recommendation?
A. Whether manuscripts for non-academic works of non-fiction are typically assigned to experienced editors
B. Whether non-academic works are not required to be as structured as academic textbooks
C. Whether checking that the manuscripts for academic textbooks have followed the guidelines prescribed in curriculum's adds up a considerable amount of time to the editing of these scripts
D. Whether some manuscripts for academic textbooks do not follow the standard curriculum prescribed in most universities
E. Whether writers of academic textbooks are usually professors who base their books on the same syllabus that is prescribed in the universities where they teach
The right answer should be C. The best way to solve this question is to first recognise the category and therefore, what must be done. This is an evaluate the conclusion question, which means that we must identify the conclusion, and pick an option that allows us to say whether the conclusion is good or bad.
Conclusion: "the company stop publishing non-academic works in order to save time on the editing process"
We don't know if this is a valid conclusion yet or not. The option we pick should help us decide this, based on how we answer that option. Hence, the correct answer, depending on how we answer the option, should tell us that the conclusion is both sound AND invalid.
A - If yes, the increase in editing time will not be that great, if no, it will be much greater. However, both these answers lead us to the same conclusion that stopping publication of non-academic works will save time. OUT
B - This option is irrelevant. We don't care what non-academic (or academic) works look like, since there is no mention about the types of works Oscar Publishing prefers to publish. OUT
C - If the answer to this is no, then the conclusion remains valid, as it would save a lot of time to not publish non-academic work. However, if the answer to this is yes, then the conclusion suddenly becomes invalid, as it means that a lot of editing time will be used up regardless of whether the work is academic or not. This is what we're looking for, since the answer to this option tells us whether the conclusion is sound or not. CORRECT
D - This is irrelevant for the same reason that B is. We do not care about the content that is being published, only whether said content would take time to edit or not. OUT
E - This again is irrelevant for the same reason that B, D are. The conclusion is specifically about saving time in editing, not about the content of the books themselves. OUT
- Matoo
Hi I’m not clear on why B is wrong. If NAW is not required to be as structured then it would take the publisher same amount of time to produce both (given the assumption that more non structured work requires more editing and hence more time) but if it is required to be as structured then he would need more time to edit the NAW and hence the conclusion would be strengthened.
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