On Conflicting Viewpoints, read the passage. Label each student or scientist with one short stance before you touch the questions. This is the passage type where skipping the intro first is a bad idea. The full type is in Conflicting Viewpoints.
One line per voice
Scientist 1: heat causes X. Scientist 2: heat does not. That is enough. Comparison questions will ask who would agree with a new fact. If you mix the voices, every item gets harder. Comparing two experiments on a research-summary passage is a different job, in comparing two experiments.
New information that hits a viewpoint is in new-information questions. Hypothesis versus what the data show is in hypothesis versus conclusion.
The bottom line
Read this passage type. Tag each voice. Then answer.
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