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ID: SAT-RW-EI-027
Section: SAT Reading & Writing (RW) – Expression of Ideas
Topic: Rhetorical Synthesis
Difficulty level: Medium

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

Print historian Hana Delacroix compares two early methods for reproducing text: woodblock printing and movable type.
In woodblock printing, a whole page of text is carved as a single raised block, inked, and pressed onto paper.
A carved block prints only its one page, but once carved it can print that page thousands of times.
In movable type, each character is cast as a separate, reusable piece.
The pieces are arranged into a page, printed, then taken apart and rearranged for the next page.
Setting a page in movable type is slow, but the same pieces can compose any page.

The student wants to present the two methods to an audience already familiar with the history of early printing. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

AWoodblock printing carves a whole page as one block that can be reprinted thousands of times but never rearranged, whereas movable type sets a page from reusable characters that are slow to arrange yet can be broken up and composed into any other page.

BWoodblock printing and movable type were both important early methods of reproducing written text.

CFor readers new to the subject, it helps to know that printing simply means pressing an inked design onto paper to make a copy. It is exactly the kind of patient, first-principles opening that a room of newcomers would thank you for, laid out slowly and from the ground up before any names, dates, or mechanisms are allowed to enter the discussion.

DIn woodblock printing a page is carved as a single raised block, and in movable type each character is cast as a separate piece.

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