Sentence Examples: High Argumentative-All Examples - Move 2

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' right arrow (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 2. Establish the niche

1. However, critics have disagreed vigorously about the goals and features of an improved pedagogy. (Bain)

 

2. Working with such content is a complex enterprise not easily reduced to choices between learning facts and mastering historical thinking processes. (Bain)

 

3. Indeed, attention to one is necessary to foster the other. (Bain)

  4. Such work, then, requires both substantial knowledge and skill on the part of the teacher to help students learn historical content.(Bain)
  5. Though we do not advocate (DePew)
 

6. Yet, to engage in these types of inquiry (such as answering the questions above), teacher scholars have little theoretical and methodological precedent for studying issues of these disciplines. (DePew)

  7. . . . we do believe that . . . (DePew)
  8.. . .researchers should view this disciplinary division as an opportunity rather than an obstacle.
  9. As we have already begun to see. . .(DePew)
  10. . . .but the conversation is still only a murmur.
  11. Developing a system of design guidelines for scaffolded software requires such a model of mechanisms that explain why a tool reflecting these guidelines would benefit learners. (Reiser)
  12. Subsequent words are also learned as wholes, although not necessarily out of context.
 

13. To achieve these goals, scientists need to understand three aspects of the paradox. . .(Rayner)

 

14. Unfortunately, in English the grapheme-phoneme correspondence is complex . . .(Rayner)

  15. In contrast, phonics instruction emphasizes the relationship between graphemes (printed letters) and phoneme (their associated sounds). (Rayner)
  16. More recently, an approach to teaching reading that emphasizes meaning, called whole-language instruction, has been widely implemented in school districts. . .
 

17. The method has been successfully applied to link Korean words from a bilingual dictionary to English WordNet synsets. (Lee)

 

18. So we have to decide a synset fshrub, bushg among .ve candidates. . . (Lee)

 

19. . . . our mapping target only applies to the WordNet synset which has one or more corresponding Korean word senses among nouns. (Lee)

  20. Clearly, immigration has become a salient and a permanent feature of the school environment in European and North American cities. (Phalet)
  21. History teachers know that the choices are neither so dichotomous nor so simple. (Bain)
  22.. . .while core historical concepts, such as stability and change, require familiarity with the sequence of events to give them meaning. (Bain)
  23. However, it has received relatively little research attention. (Rogoff)
  24. In particular, it is important to characterize the mechanisms by which a software tool can provide scaffolding for learners. (Reiser)
  25. . . .alongside trust we need to adopt a kind of vigilance, an attitude that is motivated by mistrust, in order to maintain a healthy democracy. (Lenard)
  26. And yet, until recently, the exclusion of teenagers from the vote has received comparatively little attention in public debate (Schrag, 2004). (Chan)
  27. Nevertheless, the question of the voting age is now a subject of political debate. (Chan)
  28. In its final report, Age of Electoral Majority, the Commission recommends that. . . (Chan)
  29. . . . --while the age of candidacy should be lowered from 21 to 18, . . . . (Chan)
  30. . . . --the voting age should stay at 18 (Electoral Commission, 2004). (Chan)
  31. . . . the case for lowering the voting age is not conclusively established. (Chan)
  32. Whereas action-oriented individuals make decisions and initiate difficult actions relatively quickly under demanding or difficult conditions, . . . (Kuhl, 1994a). (Kazen)
  33. However, the empirical evidence, which we review below, does not allow for firm conclusions regarding the temporal sequence of forgiveness and psychological adjustment. (Orth)
  34. . . .but there is growing consensus that . . .(Orth)
 

35. . . .to be useful, the feedback must be grounded and must refer to the specific text of the essay (Scardamalia and Bereiter, 1985; White, 1994). (Burstein)

36. However, the question arises as to whether 'positive' life events and 'positive' emotions can also lead to religion and spirituality. (Saroglou)

(back to top) 37. To engage in development and study of design guidelines requires greater clarity concerning what is meant that a tool has scaffolded learners . . . (Reiser)