<p>i dont remember either but if it was asking what her actions were <em>conscientious</em>----if it was asking for the tone of either the paragraph or her actions <em>self-satisfied</em></p>
<p>because it seemed that she was smug (synonym of self-satisfied)–see my post above</p>
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<p>HAHA kudos to you, sir.</p>
<p>Ahh, I had no idea conscientious had anything to do with adding anecdotes to written materials! That must be the right answer…</p>
<p><em>humorous</em> anecdotes…</p>
<p>nice photoshop</p>
<p>Obviously pdawggy’s screenshot is an edit. Why would the sample use of “conscientious” pertain to the meaning of the second definition?</p>
<p>I can’t believe self-satisfied is even being contemplating, it is so clearly conscientious. The purpose of the question is to examine how the granddaughter began to write like her grandmother. The way she goes in to talking about the hip joint and other parts of her life shows a very diligent, caring manner of writing. This invested involvement that the granddaughter has begun can only be described as conscientious, she would be self-satisfied after she finished writing the letter but not as she begins to write.</p>
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Likewise, but I support self-satisfied. We’ll see :)</p>
<p>so wary is out of the question im guessing…damn 
its just that every time i think of conscientious, i think more of a conscientious student, in effect a hard worker. it never crossed my mind of pertaining to it. but now i see…</p>
<p>I have been following this thread since page one on the day of the test and I have to say something about the self-satisfied/conscientious one.
The people that argue the girl was conscientious are absolutely correct; she did work hard to make sure she sounded like her grandmother. However, I am 98% sure the question asked for the TONE of that part of the passage. And her TONE was without a doubt self-satisfied. She was satisfied and a little smug because she knew what she had to do to sound like her grandmother.
Just my two cents.</p>
<p>^ I agree. That’s what made it a hard question.</p>
<p>Wow you guys are still arguing this? We’ve repeatedly come to the consensus that self-satisfied is more appropriate. We could always be wrong, but let’s stop beating the dead horse.</p>
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Great, great way to put it.</p>
<p>what about primary purpose of g ma one? why is it development as a writer over misunderstanding?</p>
<p>@carpdime
Thanks :]
I had to get something in there. The argument has been driving me mad for the past 60 pages.</p>
<p>i put misunderstanding and was about 95% sure before i went on this thread. I dont think it said that she developed as a writer. The misunderstanding was she wanted to pad granma’s letter and she was angry that it was so short, but the purpose of the letter was not to inform. This is proven by granma’s wanting to sign “love”.</p>
<p>The into blurb said the author is a published writer. The first sentence of the passage was “My first assignment was…” showing that this is her 1st stage in her development.</p>
<p>That’s not a misunderstanding of how to write letters; it’s a misunderstanding of how to write Grandma’s letters.</p>
<p>I put self-satisfied, and development as a writer.
I don’t think the whole purpose of the story would be to talk about a misunderstanding…it’s definitely to show that through writing her grandmother’s letters she became a better writer.</p>
<p>I put development as a writer as well.
While much of the article did talk about things that would imply the girl and grandmother misunderstood the purpose of letters (the cookies, the stories, the “love”), that was not, from my perspective, the FOCUS of the story. The story focused on the development of the writer, seen by her “first transaction” in writing, her pride in making up stories, and her increasing ability to write.</p>
<p>There was no textual evidence for either answer. It was all based on implications and your “vibe” from the passage. I think this was arguably the hardest CR reading question (just my opinion though aha). Probably a level 4 or 5 q.</p>