Section: English Language & Composition

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Which document type best describes the passage?

1. Novel
2. Short story
3. Reasoned argument
4. Impassioned plea
5. Investigative journalism

Novels and short stories have nothing in common with the passage. It might be an impassioned plea except that the narrator has the authority to interpret law, making it closer to an argument than investigative journalism, hence Answer 3.