Sentence Examples: Tentative-All Examples - Move 2

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 2. Establish the niche

1. It seems often to be taken for granted or overlooked . . .(Rogoff)

  2 . . . perhaps because researchers are especially familiar with contrasting instructional approaches used in schooling.
  3. As How People Learn suggests. . .
 

4. As Wineburg suggests, . . .(Bain)

  5. . . .claims of disciplinary ignorance are becoming increasingly irresponsible. (DePew)
 

6. As scientists learn more about the starting point, the process, and the end point of learning to read, . . .(Rayner)

 

7. and critics of this approach have argued that . . .(Rayner)

  8. In this article, I argue that . . .(Lenard)
  9. As seen from this example, when we link the senses of Korean words to WordNet synsets, . . .(Lee)
  10. Some heuristics would not be meaningful for other parts of speech (i.e., adjective, adverb, and verb). (Lee)
  11. If the formation, cognitive maintenance, and completion of intentions actually are self-regulatory processes. . .(Kazen)
  12. we could expect that . . . (Kazen)
  13. state-oriented persons tend to hesitate and postpone actions under those circumstances (Kuhl, 1994a). (Kazen)
 

14. If a system can automatically identify the actual text associated with discourse elements in student essays, . . .(Burstein)

 

15. If these questions were presented, along with specific text segments from students?? essays, . . .(Burstein)

 

16. this would help students think about specific parts of their essay. (Burstein)

  17. For instance, if people may turn to God and spirituality. . .(Saroglou)
 

18. when they lose a loved one, . . .(Saroglou)

 

19. . . .might they also turn to God and spirituality when they fall in love? (Saroglou)

 

20. Similarly, if threats coming from the external world push people to turn to religion and spirituality . . .(Saroglou)

(back to top) 21. . . . can positive emotions relative to this external world also lead to some interest in or increase of religion and spirituality?(Saroglou)