Non Argumentative: Presenting Actions/Procedures, move 1

Sentence Examples: Non Argumentative-Presenting Actions/Procedures - Move 1

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

Presenting Facts
- Move 1
- Move 2
- Move 3
Presenting Actions/Procedures
- Move 1
- Move 2
- Move 3
All Examples
- Move 1
- Move 2
- Move 3

3 Rhetoric Moves in 'Introduction'	Stance: Click on each sentence to see its context (What is this?). * bold = Stance Keywords
Move 1: Establish a territory	1. Children everywhere learn by observing and listening-in on activities of adults and other children. (Rogoff)
	2. They observe and listen with intent concentration . . . (Rogoff)
	3. In the European context, we use the term migrant or minority youth to refer to the children of first-generation ethnic minorities, who may or may not have the nationality of the host country (Phalet)
	4. Predominant postcolonial and guest worker types of immigration in Europe occupy an intermediate position in between upwardly mobile immigrants and permanently excluded immigrants (Ogbu, 1992).
	5. With weeks of student contact hours, instructors choose to focus on a few of these issues, both in their teaching and in their research.
	6. Therefore, in composition studies, instructors move towards specializations.
	7. Learning to read presents a paradox. (Rayner)
	8. For an adult who is a good reader, reading feels so simple, effortless, and automatic that it is almost impossible to look at a word and not read it. (Rayner)
	9. In many branches of linguistics, corpora provide core data for survey research and for the development and testing of hypotheses.
	10. Research tools have been developed to make these corpora easily accessible. (Rietveld)
	11. We trust our parents, our friends, our teachers, and so on.
	12.. . . as we go about our daily lives.
	13. . . .remembering and carrying out actions take place in the context of individual's current ongoing activities. (Kazen)
	14. The concept of forgiveness has received increased attention by researchers in personality and social psychology during the last decade (cf. Exline, Worthington, Hill, & McCullough, 2003). (Orth)
	15. . . .people show stronger belief in God and supernatural agents in general (Norenzayan & Hansen, 2006) . . . (Saroglou)
	16. . . and people with extrinsic value orientation show higher levels of spirituality (Cozzolino, Staples, Meyers, & Samboceti, 2004). (Saroglou)
(back to top)	17. All of this evidence gives support to classic theorists who have emphasized the defensive function of religion against frustration, anxiety, fear, deprivation, and so on (e.g., Freud, 1927/1961; Glock, 1964; Marx, 1843/1979). (Saroglou)