High Argumentative: Countering, move 1

Sentence Examples: High Argumentative-Countering - 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. But the significance of the paradox is more general, in ways that touch everyone. (Rayner)
	4. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. (Rayner)
	5. A significant number of people never achieve the effortless literacy of the skilled reader.
	6. For them, the complex process of learning to read never came to an end. (Rayner)
	7. While these thesauri (e.g. Roget's thesaurus, WordNet (Miller, 1990), etc.) exist in English . . .
	8. yet it is also the most costly and time-consuming. (Lee)
	9. But rapid developments in storage capacity and computational power have made the availability of sound and video signals a reality. . . (Rietveld)
(back to top)	10. Although this classification suggests that . . . (Kazen)