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ShirnelJanuary 29, 2020
Roles of sentences
I got this question correct but had a quick question regarding the role of one of the sentences. "Either way, the dissertation is counterproductive and frustrates the appropriate goals of the doctoral program." Is this sentence a subsidiary conclusion?
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I would say that it isn't. That line helps support the main conclusion, but there isn't much serving to establish that line itself as a separate conclusion. If you were thinking of the two sentences that come before it, those lines look like they're trying to establish that the necessary conditions given in the first sentence aren't both being met (hence how we get to our conclusion). I would say the line you're referring to is just another part of the argument (along with the other pieces of evidence) intended to support the main conclusion the argument is trying to establish, which you correctly identified!
