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Which statement, if true, would most directly support the student's claim? A student is examining a long, challenging poem that was initially published in a quarterly journal without explanatory notes, then later republished in a stand-alone volume containing only that poem and accompanying explanatory notes written by the poet. The student asserts that the explanatory notes were included in the r epublication primarily as a marketing device to help sell the stand-alone volume.
- 1The text of the poem as published in the quarterly journal is not identical to the text of the poem published in the stand-alone volume.
- 2Many critics believe that the poet's explanatory notes remove certain ambiguities of the poem and make it less interesting as a resul t.
- 3The publishers of the stand-alone volume requested the explanatory notes from the poet in order to make the boo k attractive to readers who already had a copy of the poem in a journal issue.✓
- 4Correspondence between the poet and the publisher reveal s that the poet's explanatory notes went through several drafts.
Correct answer
The publishers of the stand-alone volume requested the explanatory notes from the poet in order to make the boo k attractive to readers who already had a copy of the poem in a journal issue.
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