How to Weaken a LSAT Conclusion with Two Speakers in LawHub Logical Reasoning Drill Set #4

Learn how to engage a practice LSAT Logical Reasoning weaken an argument question task at lawhub.lsac.org by highlighting the conclusion of the relevant speaker and then predicting the broad information required to undermine that specific argument before cross checking that prediction, rather than the full argument, against the answer choices.

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LSAC LawHub LSAT Logical Reasoning Drill Set 4, Question 2:

Tasha: Novels rather than poetry make up most of the writing by nineteenth-century female writers because, lacking private writing rooms, most women wrote in noisy surroundings. Writing fiction requires less concentration than writing poetry.

Helen: You're right that most nineteenth-century women lacked private writing rooms, but lack of money was the reason they didn't write more poetry. Anyone who couldn't afford to have a private writing room also would have been unable to afford the formal literary education required for writing poetry.

2. Which one of the following, if true, would most weaken Helen's explanation?

A) Most nineteenth-century male writers did not have writing rooms of their own.
B) In the nineteenth century, a greater percentage of poets than novelists had writing rooms.
C) Most nineteenth-century female poets were also novelists.
D) The institutions providing formal literary training in the nineteenth century excluded women. (Correct)
E) Most of the novels written in the nineteenth century were written by men.