GRE Essay Feedback Hour - Let's Edit Together - August 17, 2021
<h2><span style="font-size:16px"><strong>Issue Prompt</strong></span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size:16px"><strong>Claim</strong>: Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px"><strong>Reason:</strong> We are not able to make connections between current events and past events until we have some distance from both.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16px"><em>Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.</em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16px"><strong>Argument Prompt</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px">The following is a recommendation from the Board of Directors of Monarch Books.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16px">"We recommend that Monarch Books open a café in its store. Monarch, having been in business at the same location for more than twenty years, has a large customer base because it is known for its wide selection of books on all subjects. Clearly, opening the café would attract more customers. Space could be made for the café by discontinuing the children's book section, which will probably become less popular given that the most recent national census indicated a significant decline in the percentage of the population under age ten. Opening a café will allow Monarch to attract more customers and better compete with Regal Books, which recently opened its own café."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px"><em>Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.</em></span></p>
