Sentence Examples: Med Argumentative-Higher Frequency/Level - Move 1

Learning Objectives & Strategies:
Find the patterns for expressing Med Argumentative stance. Below are the steps:
1. Look at the "Linguistic Expressions for Med 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 1. Establish the territory

1.There is much interest in education reform in using technology to support learners. (Reiser)

  2. Most often, their parents have a rural background with little or no formal education. . .(Phalet)
  3. For this reason, many researchers focus on the massive acquisition of lexical knowledge and semantic information from pre-existing lexical resources, preferring an automatic approach. (Lee)
 

4 .... health and legal professionals often post their diplomas where patients and clients can see them, so as to give them information on which they can base their trust. (Lenard).

  5. ... members of ethnocultural groups often extend trust to each other more easily than they do to outsiders. (Lenard).
  6. Recently, a considerable amount of research has examined the role of prospective memory (PM) in intentional action (see e.g., Brandimonte, Einstein, & McDaniel, 1996). (Kazen)
  7. ... aside from its positive interpersonal effects, forgiveness is often assumed to have positive intrapersonal effects on the psychological adjustment of the forgiving individual ([Baumeister et al., 1998], [Enright et al., 1998] and [Exline et al., 2003]). (Orth)
 

8. Many colleges, universities, public school districts, and language testing organizations use automated essay scoring technologies to provide grades to student essays (Burstein, 2003; Elliott, 2003; Landauer et al., 2003; Larkey and Croft, 2003; Page, 2003). (Burstein)

(back to top) 9. Facing an illness, personal crises, and negative life events have often been found to predict conversion and greater religious and spiritual involvement (Spilka, Hood, Hunsberger, & Gorsuch, 2003). (Saroglou)