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Discussion texts

Purpose
- To evaluate an issue and persuade another, to take a position and justify it
Structural Features
- Supporting Arguments and Evidence
- Refuting Counter-Arguments and Evidence
- Thesis/Personal Statement of Position
- Re-iteration of Point of View/ Conclusion
Key Linguistic Features
- Modals
  - to position a reader in a certain way
- Nominalization
  - to create authority and de-personalize text
- Connectives
  - as signposts for reader
- Conjunctions
  - to link clauses within sentences

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