Sentence Examples: Tentative-Suggestion/Hypothesis - 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. As Wineburg suggests, . . .(Bain)

  2. As How People Learn suggests. . .
  3. and critics of this approach have argued that. . .(Rayner)

  4. In this article, I argue that . . .(Lenard)
   
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Last Updated: 10/28/08
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Doctoral Candidate, Learning Technologies,
School of Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.