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Newspaper editors should not allow reporters to write the headlines for their own stories. The reason for this is that, while the headlines that reporters themselves write are often clever,

what typically makes them clever is that they allude to little-known information that is familiar to the reporter but that never appears explicitly in the story itself.

Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?

A. The reporter who writes a story is usually better placed than the reporter’s editor is to judge what the story’s most newsworthy features are.

B. To write a headline that is clever, a person must have sufficient understanding of the story that the headline accompanies.

C. Most reporters rarely bother to find out how other reporters have written stories and headlines about the same events that they themselves have covered.

D. For virtually any story that a reporter writes, there are at least a few people who know more about the story’s subject matter than does the reporter.

E. The kind of headlines that newspaper editors want are those that anyone who has read a reporter’s story in its entirety will recognize as clever.

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Argument Ev

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Situation The headlines newspaper reporters write for their own stories are often clever only because they allude to little-known information that never appears explicitly in the stories themselves.

Reasoning What would most help the argument support the conclusion that newspaper editors should not allow reporters to write headlines for their own stories?

The argument’s only explicit premise is that the headlines newspaper

reporters write for their own stories are often clever only because they allude to little-known information that never appears explicitly in the stories

themselves. In order for this premise to support the conclusion that newspaper editors should not allow reporters to write their own headlines, it would be helpful to be given a reason why editors should avoid headlines alluding to such little-known information.

A. This suggests that reporters are likely to write better headlines for their stories than editors are, so it weakens the argument that editors should not allow reporters to write their own headlines.

B. Since a reporter who wrote a story is likely to understand that story well, this does not provide a reason why editors should not allow reporters to write their own headlines.

C. If most reporters did what is suggested, they could perhaps hone their headline-

writing skills—unless almost all reporters are weak in such skills, as suggested in the

given information. The fact that they do not bother to do so may help explain why

reporters’ headline-writing skills are weak. An explanation of why this is so does not provide additional support for the argument’s conclusion.

D. The people who know more about a story’s subject matter than the reporter writing the story might be just as likely to see the cleverness of allusions to little-known

information as the reporters are. So, to the extent that this is relevant at all, it slightly weakens the argument by suggesting that obscurely clever headlines sometimes function as intended.

E. Correct. The argument’s explicit premise suggests that typically a reporter’s headline for his or her own story cannot be recognized as clever by a reader who has read the

whole story. So if editors want headlines that anyone who has read the accompanying stories would recognize as clever, they have a reason not to let reporters write the headlines.