High Argumentative: All examples, move 1

Sentence Examples: High Argumentative-All Examples - Move 1

Learning Objectives & Strategies:
Find the patterns for expressing High Argumentative stance. Below are the steps:
1. Look at the "Linguistic Expressions for High Argumentative"
2. Then search [EDIT->Find in the browser] by recurrent patterns in the linguistic expressions (keywords, pre/suffix, tense, etc.). Here is a reference list for you.
3. When ready, take an exercise.
(SEE ALSO "Start with clause" for breaking a text into clauses)

(1) Select a 'function'

(2) Select a MOVE (What is this?) the function falls into

3 Rhetoric Moves in "Introduction"	Stance: Click on each sentence to see its context (What is this?). * bold = Stance Keywords
Move 1. Establish the territory	1.These specializations, however, can make it difficult for these instructors to see how the sub-disciplines from these various exigencies may overlap. (DePew)
	2. Although both fields are sub-disciplines of composition studies . . .(DePew)
	3. Needless to say, extensive corpuses of scholarship have been generated for both fields. (DePew)
	4. But the significance of the paradox is more general, in ways that touch everyone. (Rayner)
	5. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. (Rayner)
	6. . . .because learning to read is strikingly different from other sorts of learning. (Rayner)
	7. A significant number of people never achieve the effortless literacy of the skilled reader.
	8. For them, the complex process of learning to read never came to an end. (Rayner)
	9. There is no doubt on the increasing importance of using wide coverage thesauri for NLP tasks, especially for word sense disambiguation, machine translation, and information retrieval. (Lee)
	10. While these thesauri (e.g. Roget's thesaurus, WordNet (Miller, 1990), etc.) exist in English . . .
	11. . . .there are very few available wide-range thesauri for other languages.
	12. Of course, manual construction of a thesaurus by experts is the most reliable technique . . .(Lee)
	13. . . . yet it is also the most costly and time-consuming. (Lee)
	14. But rapid developments in storage capacity and computational power have made the availability of sound and video signals a reality. . . (Rietveld)
	15.. . .many European schools were for the first time confronted with an increasingly ethnically (i.e., racially, culturally, and linguistically) diverse student population. (Phalet)
	16. This is especially true for children of so-called labor immigrants including, among others, Turkish and Moroccan youth in Europe (Vermeulen and Perlmann, 2000). (Phalet)
	17. they are vastly overrepresented in low-end jobs; . . . (Phalet)
	18. As visible minorities, they are also facing widespread ethnic discrimination and prejudice by their European hosts (Bovenkerk et al., 1991). (Phalet)
	19. We even trust people more generally, people we have never met, . . .(Lenard).
	20. Trust, as described in this way, is clearly a part of our everyday lives.(Lenard)
	21. One drawing simply depicts Mohammad in the desert. . . (Lagaard)
	22. During the controversy the publication was repeatedly criticised for being wrong, mostly by offended Muslims but also by other religious groups and some liberals. (Lagaard)
	23. . . .because having the vote is widely recognised as one of the most important legal rights within a democracy. (Chan)
	24. In the absence of some compelling argument, the exclusion of a particular section of the population is standardly taken to be a serious violation of political equality. (Chan)
	25. The capacity to remember and carry out one??s intentions is of fundamental importance (= is fundamentally important) to successful functioning in everyday life. (Kazen)
	26. Although this classification suggests that . . . (Kazen)
	27. . . .we have to do exclusively with a cognitive process. . .(Kazen)
	28. . . . many other processes are also involved, such as motivation, compliance, vigilance, reward, or resolving conflicting goals (cf. Winograd, 1988, p. 350). (Kazen)
	29. . . .they also gained an awareness about the need for more comprehensive analyses of student writing.(Burstein)
	30. They also had a strong interest in automated analysis of the essay-based discourse features (Burstein et al., 2003; Burstein and Marcu, 2003). (Burstein)
	31.. . .invention, arrangement and revision in essay writing must be developed in order to produce effective writing. (Burstein)
	32. There is considerable cross-sectional, longitudinal, and experimental evidence . . .(Saroglou)
	33. Indeed, religion increases following socioeconomic distress (e.g., Wimberley, 1984). (Saroglou)
(back to top)	34. The death of a loved one may also elicit interest in religion and spirituality (e.g., Michael, Crowether, Schmid, & Allen, 2003). (Saroglou)