A question about an author's response tests how you connect their view to another text's claim. Use the question to find who responds and the exact claim being answered. If the marked claim gives both a reason and a recommendation, put each part into your own words. Then use the responding text to name the stance: agree, reject, qualify by adding a limit, or extend it to a new case. The reason for that stance must come from the responding author's text.
Hints
- Hint 1
Focus on the two parts of the bolded claim: what it says about the environment and what it says schools should do.
- Hint 2
Read Text 2's last sentence and compare what it recommends with the bolded claim. Does the author accept the whole claim, only part of it, or none of it?
Step-by-step
Match stance and reason
Step 1Separate the two parts
Text 1 connects Printed textbooks are environmentally harmful with the demand that they should be eliminated from classrooms within the next five years. What does Text 2's response need to address? Both the environmental concern and the call to remove the books matter, since an author could accept one without accepting the other.
- Step 2
Find the concern and the value
What does Text 2 accept, and what reason does it give for keeping printed books? The author agrees that they do contribute to paper consumption, but also says they remain valuable learning tools. Some students remember more when reading on paper, and printed books don't have battery or software problems. So the environmental concern doesn't cancel the value of printed books.
- Step 3
Predict the author's stance
The final sentence begins Rather than eliminating them, which rules out the plan to remove printed books. What does the author recommend instead? The author recommends recycled paper and both formats, so we'd predict that the author will accept the concern, but reject elimination. That accepts only part of the bolded claim.
- Step 4
Match the response to the text
Which choice gives that stance for the author's own reason? The phrase sustainable materials matches printed on recycled paper, and in combination with digital resources matches use them alongside digital resources. This response addresses both parts of the bolded claim by acknowledging environmental concerns while keeping printed books. Choice B.