AP.073 Paragraph Order and Placement
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The writer has drafted the following four paragraphs, but Paragraph 4 may be misplaced. Which revision would create the clearest progression of ideas? Paragraph 1: When a community discusses street vending, it may appear to be debating sidewalk congestion and business competition. In fact, the issue asks whether street vending can make entrepreneurship visible in public space. The answer has civic consequences: economic life includes small-scale public initiative. Paragraph 2: Consider the case in which a commuter buying tamales from a licensed cart sees work that would otherwise be hidden inside private kitchens. Such a case translates the argument from theory into a situation readers can evaluate. Paragraph 3: Thus the draft's line of reasoning moves from a local choice to a shared responsibility. The final measure is whether the policy supports the broader claim that economic life includes small-scale public initiative. Paragraph 4: The claim depends on a conceptual shift. Calling the issue entrepreneurship recasts it as organized risk-taking and labor that create value in ordinary public places rather than informal clutter, which prepares the reader for the example that follows.