Compare-viewpoint items ask where two scientists agree, disagree, or would predict differently. Chart each claim before you pick. This is narrower than conflicting viewpoints as a passage type, in conflicting viewpoints. Science is optional and outside the Composite.
Same question, two answers
Write a short label for Scientist 1 and Scientist 2 on the point the stem names. Annotating as you read is in annotating conflicting viewpoints. Evaluating a model is a neighbor, in evaluating a model.
New information that would help one side is in new-information questions.
The bottom line
Name each view on the stem’s point. Then compare those two notes, not your own science knowledge.
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