Stance Overview

Stance Overview: Taking a Stance - What is stance?
Stance can generally be represented in the following four voices.

Learning Objectives & Strategies:
Understand (A) the degree of authority each stance expresses (B) the purpose each stance serves.
1. First examine the "Degree of Authority" and "Purposes" of each XXstance in the table below.
2. You can click on the stance (on the left) to see examples XXorgaznied by the purposes (on the right). OR
3. You can continue on to "Definition" and "Linguistic Expressions" XXin this section to get an overall picture of these stances.

Stance	Degree of Authority	Room for the readers to contest	Purposes
Non Argumentative	Factual and Monologic	0%	1. Report facts to set up background or 2. Describe actions or procedures undertaken in the study
High Argumentative	90%+	10%-	1. To counter 2. To contend, proclaim, or endorse
Med Argumentative	50%~90%	10%~50%	1. To suggest higher possibility of 2. To suggest higher level, frequency, amount, or number of 3. To highlight using first-person pronoun + highlighting verbs
Tentative	50%-	50%+	1. To soften a subjective statement by suggesting SOME possibility, frequency, or degree of 2. To suggest or hypothesize 3. To present conditions 4. To pose questions