Sentence Examples: Med Argumentative-Higher Possibility - 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. The origins of these corpora can be manifold. . . (Rietveld)

 

2. Corpora of speech may just include transcripts

  Because we cannot know whether a person who is trusted will fulfil this trust (O'Neill, 2002b, p. 6)
 

3. Stated in practical terms, students at all levels can benefit from practice applications that give them an opportunity to work on discourse structure in essay writing. (Burstein)