Sentence Examples: Tentative-All Examples - Move 1

Learning Objectives & Strategies:
Find the patterns for expressing Tentative stance. Below are the steps:
1. Look at the "Linguistic Expressions for Tentative"
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. Learning through keen observation and listening, seems to be especially valued in communities where children have access to learning from informal community involvement. (Rogoff)

  2. From the late 1980s onward, when the second generation started their school careers. . .(Phalet)
 

3. More often than not, the minority status of ethnic minority families in European host countries is associated with social disadvantage. (Phalet)

 

4. and they are more often unemployed and living in relatively poor urban neighborhoods. (Phalet)

 

5. As a consequence of new non-European immigration from the 1960s until today, schools and classrooms in Western Europe have become increasingly multicultural. (Phalet)

  6.In the last two decades of learning sciences research, scaffolding has become increasingly prominent. (Reiser)
 

7. History education, Hall observed, involved generally unprepared teachers who used ineffective methods to turn history into the driest of school subjects. (Bain)

  8. As with the teaching of L2 writers and the teaching of digital writing separately, a cross-disciplinary research project would probably be considered the province of the specialists. (DePew)
 

9. With a focused knowledge in these sub-disciplines, instructors tend to excel at developing strategies that address specific aspects of their courses. (DePew)

 

10. Reading seems so natural to the literate adult that one could easily imagine that it must rank among the simplest skills for a child to acquire. (Rayner)

  11. How can a skill that feels so easy to the adult be so difficult for the child to acquire?
 

12. . . .when they are ready to help in shared endeavors. (Rogoff)

  13. The reasons, moreover, that we extend trust to others appear to be as wide-ranging as the situations in which we decide to trust. (Lenard).
  14. A trusting person will do something and with a particular attitude, namely, a willingness (attitude) to put herself in vulnerability (behaviour) with respect to another person (Baier, 1986, pp. 234). (Lenard)
  15. When we trust someone, . . .. (Lenard)
  16. Others somehow associate the Prophet, Islam or Muslims with terrorism. . . (Lagaard)
  17. Accordingly, it seems plausible . . .(Kazen)
  18. One reason why forgiveness attracts attention might be its prosocial character, making it a focus of the positive psychology movement (cf.[Gable and Haidt, 2005] and [Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi, 2000]). (Orth)
  19. If forgiveness influences psychological adjustment, . . . (Orth)
 

20. The literature in the teaching of writing suggests that . . . (Burstein)

  21. Why do people turn to religion and spirituality? (Saroglou)
 

22. People who have experienced insecurity in attachment to parents or to an adult partner tend to be attracted to religious and spiritual beliefs, practices (Kirkpatrick, 2005), and groups (Buxant & Saroglou, 2008; Buxant, Saroglou, Casalfiore, & Christians, 2007). (Saroglou)

 

23. More subtly, religion and spirituality seem to buffer against anxiety, especially death-related and existential anxiety. (Saroglou)

 

24. When mortality is made salient, . . .(Saroglou)

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25. The religious beliefs of the intrinsically religious people and religious fundamentalists seem to play a protective role in managing terror of death (Friedman & Rholes, 2007, 2008; Jonas & Fischer, 2006). (Saroglou)