How would you describe the relationship between Reading and Writing components on the CST?

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Reading and writing on the CST are closely connected because both activities rely on using evidence to support thinking. When you read, you interpret text, identify key ideas, and gather evidence. Those same skills show up in writing tasks, where you need to explain your thinking, organize your ideas, and back up your claims with evidence from the text. Because many questions require you to read and then justify your answer or explain how the author supports a point, these two components reinforce each other and depend on evidence-based reasoning across tasks. Saying they’re completely separate or that writing is only memorization misses how these tasks actually work together, and claiming that reading tasks don’t involve writing ignores the need to articulate reasoning and cite evidence in writing responses.