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Verbal·Expression of Ideas·Rhetorical Synthesis
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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
  • Since 1931, the New York Times (NYT) Best Sellers list has been a measure of the most successful books in the US.
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates and Tayari Jones are Black authors who have reached the NYT Best Sellers list.
  • Between the World and Me is a nonfiction book by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
  • It reached the NYT Best Sellers list on August 2, 2015.
  • An American Marriage is a novel by Tayari Jones.
  • It reached the NYT Best Sellers list on February 6, 2018.
Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to emphasize the different years in which the books reached the NYT Best Sellers list?
A
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Tayari Jones are both NYT best-selling authors.
B
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me and Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage are both NYT best sellers, but the former is a nonfiction book, whereas the latter is a novel.
C
The nonfiction book Between the World and Me became an NYT best seller in 2015; An American Marriage, a novel, joined this list as well, but in 2018.
D
Between the World and Me and An American Marriage are both books by Black authors that have reached the NYT Best Sellers list.