Sentence Examples: Med Argumentative-Higher Possibility - Move 2

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 2. Establish the niche

1. For example, negative teacher stereotypes of minority students as lazy or dumb may become self-fulfilling prophecies (Steele and Aronson, 1995). (Phalet)

  2. From their side, minority students may have different experiences in the same classroom than their native classmates.
  3. For instance, they may have difficulty in understanding teacher instructions and in structuring school tasks. . .
  4. Furthermore, repeated experiences of school failure may threaten the self-esteem of disadvantaged minority youth, leading to disengagement with learning (Okagaki et al., 1996).
  5. Some minority students may lack social or cultural skills to participate actively in classroom interactions (Connell et al., 1994). (Phalet)
  6. Others may actively resist schoolwork as a reaction against perceived ethnic discrimination by teachers or peers (Ogbu and Simons, 1998).
  7. ... their study can be informed by considering general principles of human self-regulation ([Carver and Scheier, 1998] and [Kuhl and Goschke, 1994]). (Kazen)
  8. It may be less clear, however, whether there is a role for trust in democratic politics. (Lenard)
  9. ... historical thinking may often be an "unnatural" act, requiring us to think outside familiar and comfortable assumptions and world views. (Bain)
 

10. ... they can more effectively address the vital fourth issue. . .(Rayner)

  11. ... forgiveness may be defined by prosocial motivational changes towards a transgressor, consisting in a decrease in interpersonal avoidance, a decrease in revenge motivation, and an increase in benevolence (cf. [McCullough and Hoyt, 2002], [McCullough et al., 1997] and [McCullough et al., 1998]). (Orth)
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13. ... feedback like that used in traditional textbook teaching of writing can be directed toward specific text segments in students writing. (Burstein)