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Documentary

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Documentary — Documentary-investigative register prefers past-tense factual narration ↗

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A documentary close typically does one of three things: (a) names what the investigation has changed about how we should see the topic, (b) names what is still unresolved and why that matters, or (c) reveals the larger meaning the narrow question turned out to be about. ↗
The synthesis/close is consequential, not concluding. ↗