Sentence Examples: High Argumentative-Countering - Move 3

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 3. Present the present work
1. First, however, we summarize research indicating that learning through observation and listening-in is pervasive in children's lives and is effective. (Rogoff)
  2. Although we argue for cultural differences in emphasis on this kind of learning. . .(Rogoff)
 

3. . . . but often teachers see it as something either on the margins of instruction or as a replacement for traditional teaching. (Bain)

 

4. But it is not sufficient simply to add problem formulation to the extant history curriculum and pedagogy. (Bain)

 

5. Although we recognize that . . .( DePew )

  6. . . . while the high significance levels obtained with large samples are often incorrectly interpreted as indicators of substantial effects.
  7. . . . although it has outstanding statistical properties. (Rietveld)
  8. Although some of the complaints against the publication may thus be genuine and legitimate from a liberal point of view, . . . (Lagaard)
  9. . . . whereas in the second we apply a key-pressing task simulating self-choice and action initiation in goal pursuit. (Kazen)
  10. However, this causal direction may be double-sided. (Saroglou)

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11. . . . but they may also be, as we argue here, antecedents of attachment to and endorsement of R/Sp.(Saroglou)