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Discussion texts
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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
- Modals
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- Mind Map on Discussion texts, created by yazareth peña on 05/09/2018.
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- yazareth peña
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