If the Following Passage Contains an Argument, Write a Well-Crafted

Essay

If the following passage contains an argument, write a well-crafted version of it; if the passage is not an argument, classify it as a report, illustration, explanation, or single conditional statement.
One must know how a photograph was made in order to correctly interpret it. In this way, photographs are like dental X rays, seismographs, and other records. Photographs are records, and a necessary part of interpreting a record is knowing the causal chain that produced it. Some photographs made
by specialized equipment-like the electron microscope-would be reasonably misinterpreted by a viewer ignorant of the origins.