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| argumentative text characteristics: Essays and Arguments: A Handbook for Writing Student Essays Ian Johnston, 2015-04-28 How does one help undergraduate students learn quickly how to produce effectively organized, persuasive, well-reasoned essays? This book offers a straightforward, systematic introduction to some of the key elements of the construction of arguments in essay form. The focus here is on practical advice that will prove immediately useful to students—recommended procedures are emphasized, and detailed examples of academic and student writing are provided throughout. The book introduces the basics of argumentation before moving on to the structure and organization of essays. Planning and outlining the essay, writing strong thesis statements, organizing coherent paragraphs, and writing effective introductions and conclusions are among the subjects discussed. A separate section concisely explores issues specific to essays about literary works. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Validity, Reliability and Efficiency of Comparative Judgement to Assess Student Work Sven De Maeyer, Tine Van Daal, Renske Bouwer, Marije Lesterhuis, Eva Hartell, 2023-01-13 |
| argumentative text characteristics: Text Analysis Pipelines Henning Wachsmuth, 2015-12-02 This monograph proposes a comprehensive and fully automatic approach to designing text analysis pipelines for arbitrary information needs that are optimal in terms of run-time efficiency and that robustly mine relevant information from text of any kind. Based on state-of-the-art techniques from machine learning and other areas of artificial intelligence, novel pipeline construction and execution algorithms are developed and implemented in prototypical software. Formal analyses of the algorithms and extensive empirical experiments underline that the proposed approach represents an essential step towards the ad-hoc use of text mining in web search and big data analytics. Both web search and big data analytics aim to fulfill peoples’ needs for information in an adhoc manner. The information sought for is often hidden in large amounts of natural language text. Instead of simply returning links to potentially relevant texts, leading search and analytics engines have started to directly mine relevant information from the texts. To this end, they execute text analysis pipelines that may consist of several complex information-extraction and text-classification stages. Due to practical requirements of efficiency and robustness, however, the use of text mining has so far been limited to anticipated information needs that can be fulfilled with rather simple, manually constructed pipelines. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Visualizing Argumentation Paul A. Kirschner, Simon J. Buckingham Shum, Chad S. Carr, 2012-12-06 This text examines the use of collaboration technologies in the problem-solving or decision-making process. These systems are widely used in both education and in the workplace to enable virtual groups to discuss and exchange ideas on issues ranging from applied problems to theoretical debate. While some systems are text-based, the majority rely on visualization techniques to allow participants to represent their ideas in a more flexible, graphical form. The text evaluates existing systems, and looks at how the specific needs of users in both educational and corporate environments can be reflected in the design of new systems. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Effective Learning and Teaching of Writing Gert Rijlaarsdam, Huub Bergh, Michel Couzijn, 2007-11-23 Effective Learning and Teaching of Writing is a handbook on research on the effective teaching and learning of writing. It is a reference for researchers and educators in the domain of written composition in education. Effective Learning and Teaching of Writing covers all age ranges and school settings and it deals with various aspects of writing and text types. Research methodology varies from experimental studies to reflective classroom practitioners’ research. This new volume in the series Studies in Writing brings together researchers from all kinds of disciplines involved in writing research and countries in their endeavour to improve the teaching of written composition. It is the result of co-operation of researchers all over the world and shows that in spite of the differences in educational regions over the world, research in writing shares similar problems, and tries to find answers, and generate new questions. The body of knowledge in this volume will inspire researchers and teachers to improve research and practice. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Developing Contrastive Pragmatics Martin Pütz, JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer, 2008-08-27 The present volume is a collection of papers on Contrastive Pragmatics, involving research on interlanguage and cross-cultural perspectives with a focus on second language acquisition contexts. The subdiscipline of pragmatics is seen from a multilingual and multicultural perspective thus contributing to an emerging field of study, i.e. intercultural pragmatics which can be made fruitful to second language teaching/learning and contrastive analysis. The book is an important contribution to general linguistics, pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, second language acquisition, as well as minority issues in multilingual settings. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Writing for College A Genre Based Perpective Dr. Mclean HY, M. Pd., Prof. Dr. Endry Boeriswati, M. Pd., Prof. Dr. Hj. Herlina, M. Pd. , Judul : Writing for College A Genre Based Perpective Penulis : Mclean HY, M. Pd., Prof. Dr. Endry Boeriswati, M. Pd., and Prof. Dr. Hj. Herlina, M. Pd. Ukuran : 17,5 x 25 cm Tebal : 120 Halaman Cover : Soft Cover No. ISBN : 978-623-162-753-7 No. E-ISBN : 978-623-162-754-4 (PDF) SINOPSIS Chapter 1 is deskriptive essay. This chapter covers the fundamentals of writing a descriptive essay. It provides an overview, objectives, rules, and guidelines for constructing descriptive essays. The process involves building knowledge in the field, joint construction of the text, independent construction, and concludes with assessments and a quiz. Chapter 2 is a narrative essay . Focusing on narrative essays, this chapter discusses the description, objectives, rules, and the process of building knowledge in the field. It emphasizes modeling the text, independent construction, and includes assessments and a quiz for evaluation. Chapter 3 is a explanation essay. In this chapter, the focus is on explanation essays. it details the description, objectives, rules, and building knowledge in the field. The process includes text modeling, joint construction, and independent construction, with assessments and a quiz for evaluation. Chapter 4 is a argumentative essay. This chapter explores the world of argumentative essays, covering description, objectives, rules, and building knowledge in the field. It includes text modeling, joint construction, and independent construction, along with assessments and a quiz for evaluation. Chapter 5 is a critical analysis essay addressing critical analysis essays< This chapter provides a description, objectives, rules, and guidelines for building knowledge in the field. It covers text modeling, joint construction, independent construction, assessments, and a quiz for evaluation. Chapter 6 is a analytical exposition text . Fcusing on analytical exposition> This chapter outlines objectives, rules, and building knowledge in the field. It includes text modeling, independent construction, assessments, and a quiz for evaluation. Chapter 7 is a report essay. Tthe final chapter concentrates on report essays, detailing the description, objectives, rules, and building knowledge in the field. The process includes text modeling, joint construction, independent construction, assessments, and a quiz for evaluation. Throughout the book, each chapter provides a comprehensive guide for understanding and mastering different essay types, offering clear objectives, rules, and practical exercises for effective learning. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Write Like this Kelly Gallagher, 2011 If you want to learn how to shoot a basketball, you begin by carefully observing someone who knows how to shoot a basketball. If you want to be a writer, you begin by carefully observing the work of accomplished writers. Recognizing the importance that modeling plays in the learning process, high school English teacher Kelly Gallagher shares how he gets his students to stand next to and pay close attention to model writers, and how doing so elevates his students' writing abilities. Write Like This is built around a central premise: if students are to grow as writers, they need to read good writing, they need to study good writing, and, most important, they need to emulate good writers. In Write Like This, Kelly emphasizes real-world writing purposes, the kind of writing he wants his students to be doing twenty years from now. Each chapter focuses on a specific discourse: express and reflect, inform and explain, evaluate and judge, inquire and explore, analyze and interpret, and take a stand/propose a solution. In teaching these lessons, Kelly provides mentor texts (professional samples as well as models he has written in front of his students), student writing samples, and numerous assignments and strategies proven to elevate student writing. By helping teachers bring effective modeling practices into their classrooms, Write Like This enables students to become better adolescent writers. More important, the practices found in this book will help our students develop the writing skills they will need to become adult writers in the real world. |
| argumentative text characteristics: The Co-Teacher’s Guide Jennifer L. Goeke, 2020-10-05 This pragmatic guide provides concrete, detailed strategies for co-teachers looking to expand their instructional methods and involvement beyond the One Teach, One Support model. Including step-by-step examples, practical scenarios, and visuals of successful implementations to help you quickly and effectively put these tools into practice, each chapter also highlights specific tensions that can arise in your co-teaching partnership and frames effective solutions to move beyond them efficiently and effectively. While designed for both teachers in a co-teaching pair, the book’s tools can easily be applied on your own, making this an ideal resource for co-teachers with limited common planning time. |
| argumentative text characteristics: The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell, 2006-11-01 From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia: discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior. The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas. “A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person looks at the world.” —Michael Lewis |
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| argumentative text characteristics: Discourse, conversation and argumentation: Theoretical perspectives and innovative empirical studies, volume II Antonio Bova, Lise Haddouk, Carlo Galimberti, Francesco Arcidiacono, 2023-06-22 |
| argumentative text characteristics: NGLISH FOR MEDIA STUDY WRITING MATERIALS (Developed based on Genre Based Approach) Asih Rosnaningsih, M.Pd dan Dayu Retno Puspita, M.Pd, 2020-12-01 This book is a translation of advanced English learning that specifically discusses the theory students need in writing practice of English. This book contains materials related to the Genre Based Approach presented in four sections in each chapter: Building Knowledge of the Text, Modelling the Text, Joint Construction of the Text, and Individual Construction of the Text. The contents of this book is made to improve and add more detailed materials related to various genres of the texts (report, argumentative, narrative, etc.) so that students will be easier to applied the contents of this book in the writing process. The authors would like to extend their gratitude to Ministry of Research and Technology, National Agency for Research and Innovation who has provided research grants for beginner lecturers (PDP). Furthermore, thank you to the chairman and staff of LP3M Muhammadiyah University of Tangerang who have facilitated this activity and guided this research from the preparation of proposals to research reports. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Dimensions in Discourse: Elementary to Essentials Thameemul Ansari, 2013-12-13 The book Dimensions in Discourse: Elementary to Essentials is a brilliant academic work which aims at helping the teachers and scholars who are interested in the recent developments in the field of Discourse Studies. The author, with his profound insight into the subject, has made this book not only enjoyable but also elegant. The book traces the very origin of the discipline called Discourse Analysis and brings to light various theories and methods related to this field and finally explains the scope and the reach of this field. The unique aspect of this book is that it attempts to investigate the core concepts of Discourse Studies from structural and linguistic perspectives to thematic elevation by drawing instances from representative literary texts. This work is expected to be a great resource for the university students, research scholars and teachers who are interested in exploring this ever charming territory called Discourse Analysis. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Insights in Assessment, Testing, and Applied Measurement: 2022 Gavin T. L. Brown, 2024-11-15 As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, the field of education plays a more crucial role in understanding the contemporary world than ever before. Analyzing the role of education in leading and driving change through policy, practice, and constant innovation for a more inclusive education, whether it being educating students or teachers, is crucial in the development of new and improved education systems worldwide. To this end, Frontiers in Education is organizing a series of Research Topics to highlight the latest advancements in the field. This editorial initiative, led by Dr Gavin Brown, Specialty Chief Editor of the Assessment, Testing and Applied Measurement section, is focused on new insights, novel developments, current challenges, recent advances, and future perspectives in the field of assessment in education. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Themes in Greek Linguistics Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Katerina Nicolaidis, Maria Sifianou, 1994 This volume brings together 65 papers which were presented at this Conference, the aim of which was to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between scholars with expertise in various aspects of the Greek language. For this reason the volume contains the majority of the contributions. It should provide the linguistic community with a comprehensive work presenting the state-of-the-art in Greek Linguistics and covering a wide multidisciplinary spectrum of current research. The papers are organised into six sections. Section I contains the papers of the four invited speakers. George Babiniotis discusses the contribution of linguistic theory to the teaching of Greek, Dimitra Theophanopoulou-Kontou and Angeliki Malikouti-Drachman each present an overview of the relevance of, respectively, syntactic and phonological theories to Greek, and Brian D. Joseph explores a specific theoretical issue, the pro-drop parameter. Section II brings together papers on syntax, semantics and pragmatics which examine theoretical and descriptive issues within current models such as Principles & Parameters, HPSG, Relevance Theory and others. Section III covers phonology and phonetics and also presents research on theoretical issues such as government phonology, the phonology-morphology interface, as well as descriptive issues including the instrumental investigation of selected phonetic phenomena. Section IV covers discourse and style and deals with spoken and written discourse including miscommunication, metaphor and issues on politeness. Section V on variations and extensions consists of papers on Ancient and Modern Greek dialects such as Macedonian, Cypriot, and Pontic, as well as issues on social and geographical varieties, diglossia and language acquisition. Section VI presents papers relating to the use of computers for the analysis, translation and teaching of Greek. Finally, an index of authors, languages and main key words completes the volume. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Writing and Motivation Suzanne Hidi, Pietro Boscolo, 2006-11-01 The aim of this volume is to bring together contributions from international research on writing and motivation. It not only addresses the basic question of how motivation to write can be fostered, but also provides analyses of conceptual and theoretical issues at the intersection of the topics of motivation and writing. What emerges from the various chapters is that the motivational aspects of writing represent a rich, productive and partially still unexplored research field. This volume is a step in the direction of a more systematic analysis of the problems as well as an effort to present and compare various models, perspectives and methods of motivation and writing. It addresses the implications of writing instruction based on the 2 main approaches to writing research: cognitive and socio-cultural. It provides systematic analysis of the various models, perspectives, and methods of motivation and writing. It brings together the international research available in this burgeoning field. |
| argumentative text characteristics: A Workbook for Reading Argumentative Texts James E. Scheuermann, 2022-07-26 his Workbook teaches the tools essential to analyzing and understanding the meaning of nonfiction texts that assert arguments. |
| argumentative text characteristics: PISA 2009 Assessment Framework Key Competencies in Reading, Mathematics and Science OECD, 2010-01-19 This book presents presents the theory behind the development of the 2009 PISA survey. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Contending with Gun Violence in the English Language Classroom Shelly Shaffer, Gretchen Rumohr-Voskuil, Steven Bickmore, 2018-11-13 Utilizing experiences and expertise from English educators, young adult literature authors, classroom teachers, and mental health professionals, this book considers how secondary English Language Arts can address school gun violence. Curated by field experts, contributions to this volume pay special attention to how a school’s culture and climate affect how teachers and students communicate around difficult topics that are embedded in the curriculum, but not directly addressed. As the first book that helps teachers and teacher educators to grapple with the topic of school violence specifically in the English education classroom, this book promotes young adult literature and writing activities that address timely and unfortunately recurring events. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Abstract Entity Anaphora in Argumentative Texts Donghong Liu, 2023-08-21 This book focuses on abstract entity anaphora in argumentative texts with Asher’s (1993) Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) as the theoretical framework, investigating its pragmatic features and exploring its referent interpretation. The data sources include more than 160,000-word argumentative texts (80,000-word English texts and 80,000-word Chinese ones) selected from newspapers, journals, and books in China and America. At first, a comparative study was done between Chinese and English argumentative texts so as to compare the pragmatic features of abstract entity anaphora in the two languages. Then, referent interpretation is explored within the SDRT framework. Although SDRT can account for most of the instances of abstract entity anaphora, it appears incompetent in dealing with some phenomena in the data of our study. Seven problems in SDRT were found, and corresponding solutions were proposed in an attempt to improve this theory. In general, this book has three aspects of significance. Firstly, it establishes abstract entity anaphora as an independent and a special kind of anaphora. Secondly, the research methods are the combination of empirical study and theoretical hypotheses as well as the coalescent of dynamic study and static study. Thirdly, the book is not limited to the application of SDRT to Mandarin Chinese and backward anaphora. Instead, based on the linguistic phenomena in the data, it challenges and improves the theory, and it even negates some aspects and meanwhile brings forward new solutions. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Translating Sensitive Texts , 2022-07-04 This volume brings together twenty-two of the world's leading translation and interpreting theorists, to address the issue of sensitivity in translation. Whether in novels or legal documents, the Bible or travel brochures, in translating ancient texts or providing simultaneous interpretation, sensitive subject-matter, contentious modes of expression and the sensibilities of the target audience are the biggest obstacles to acceptance of the translator's work. The contributors bring to bear a wide variety of approaches - generative, cognitive, lexical and functional - in confronting this problem, and in negotiating the competing claims of source cultures and target cultures in the areas of cultural, political, religious and sexual sensitivity. All of the articles are presented here for the first time, and in his Introduction Karl Simms gives an overview of the philosophical and linguistic questions which have motivated translators of sensitive texts through the ages. This book will be of interest to all working translators and interpreters, and to teachers of translation theory and practice. |
| argumentative text characteristics: The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing Glenn Fulcher, Luke Harding, 2021-12-15 This second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing provides an updated and comprehensive account of the area of language testing and assessment. The volume brings together 35 authoritative articles, divided into ten sections, written by 51 leading specialists from around the world. There are five entirely new chapters covering the four skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking, as well as a new entry on corpus linguistics and language testing. The remaining 30 chapters have been revised, often extensively, or entirely rewritten with new authorship teams at the helm, reflecting new generations of expertise in the field. With a dedicated section on technology in language testing, reflecting current trends in the field, the Handbook also includes an extended epilogue written by Harding and Fulcher, contemplating what has changed between the first and second editions and charting a trajectory for the field of language testing and assessment. Providing a basis for discussion, project work, and the design of both language tests themselves and related validation research, this Handbook represents an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and practitioners working in language testing and assessment and the wider field of language education. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2022) Nuria Haristiani, Yulianeta Yulianeta, Yanty Wirza, Wawan Gunawan, Ari Arifin Danuwijaya, Eri Kurniawan, Dante Darmawangsa, Suharno Suharno, Nia Nafisah, Ernie Dyah Imperiani, 2023-02-10 This is an open access book. The rapid advancement of technology has created new civilization in this digital era which affects almost all aspects of life including language, literature, culture, and education. The digital era brings opportunities as well as challenges that people have to deal with. Thus, some adjustments need to be done in order to keep up with those changes. Studies on language, literature, culture, and education need to be continuously conducted and developed to revitalize those aspects in facing the dynamic changes of the digital era. In relation to this, Faculty of Language and Literature Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (FPBS UPI) hosts this year’s International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture (ICOLLITE) with the theme “Revitalization of Language, Literature, Culture, and Education in the Digital Era” as a forum for experts and professionals to share their research, ideas, and experiences on this issue. Presenters and participants are welcome to discuss and disseminate current issues and offer solutions to the challenges of our time. Discussions on current trends in digital literacies are expected to pave way to learn from each other for betterment as one big society of humankinds, regardless of their social, economic, and cultural backgrounds. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Exploring Contextualism and Performativity Alessandro Capone, Assunta Penna, 2022-12-15 This edited volume on contextualism and pragmatics is interdisciplinary in character and contains contributions from linguistics, cognitive science and socio-pragmatics. Going beyond conventional contextual matters of truth-conditions and pragmatic intrusion, this text deals with a variety of issues including hyperbole, synonymy, reference, argumentation, schizophrenia, rationality, morality, silence and clinical pragmatics. Contributions also address the semantics/pragmatics debate and show to what extent the theory of contextualism can be applied. This volume is based on a unitary research project financed by the University of Messina and appeals to students and researchers working in linguistics and the philosophy of language. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Handbook of Epistemic Cognition Jeffrey A. Greene, William A. Sandoval, Ivar Bråten, 2016-01-22 The Handbook of Epistemic Cognition brings together leading work from across disciplines, to provide a comprehensive overview of an increasingly important topic: how people acquire, understand, justify, change, and use knowledge in formal and informal contexts. Research into inquiry, understanding, and discovery within academic disciplines has progressed from general models of conceptual change to a focus upon the learning trajectories that lead to expert-like conceptualizations, skills, and performance. Outside of academic domains, issues of who and what to believe, and how to integrate multiple sources of information into coherent and useful knowledge, have arisen as primary challenges of the 21st century. In six sections, scholars write within and across fields to focus and advance the role of epistemic cognition in education. With special attention to how researchers across disciplines can communicate and collaborate more effectively, this book will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the future of knowledge and knowing. Dr. Jeffrey A. Greene is an associate professor of Learning Sciences and Psychological Studies in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. William A. Sandoval is a professor in the division of Urban Schooling at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. Dr. Ivar Bråten is a professor of Educational Psychology at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Oslo, Norway. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Teaching Literature in Virtual Worlds Allen Webb, 2012-03-12 What are the realities and possibilities of utilizing on-line virtual worlds as teaching tools for specific literary works? Through engaging and surprising stories from classrooms where virtual worlds are in use, this book invites readers to understand and participate in this emerging and valuable pedagogy. It examines the experience of high school and college literature teachers involved in a pioneering project to develop virtual worlds for literary study, detailing how they created, utilized, and researched different immersive and interactive virtual reality environments to support the teaching of a wide range of literary works. Readers see how students role-play as literary characters, extending and altering character conduct in purposeful ways ,and how they explore on-line, interactive literature maps, museums, archives, and game worlds to analyze the impact of historical and cultural setting, language, and dialogue on literary characters and events. This book breaks exciting ground, offering insights, pedagogical suggestions, and ways for readers to consider the future of this innovative approach to teaching literary texts. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Aspects of Cohesion and Coherence in Translation Krisztina Károly, 2017-08-07 This book deals with the (re)production of cohesion and coherence in translation. Building on the theories and methods of Translation Studies and Discourse Analysis it answers some basic, still much debated questions related to translational discourse production. Such a question is whether it is possible to analyse the (re)production of coherence, and if yes, how? Can the models devised for the study of English original (not translated) and independent texts (unlike translations and their sources) be applied for the analysis of translation? How do cohesive, rhetorical and generic structure “behave” in translation? How do particular components of coherence relate to translation universals? The volume proposes a complex translational discourse analysis model and presents findings that bring new insights primarily for the study of news translation, translation strategies and translation universals. It is recommended for translation researchers, discourse analysts, practicing translators, as well as professionals and students involved in translator training. |
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| argumentative text characteristics: Exploring Identity Development and Self Leilya A. Pitre, Mike P. Cook, 2021-02-15 This book provides classroom approaches to analysis of themes in young adult literature reflecting an array of relationships with self and the world with which adolescents engage daily. These themes include self-discovery, self-perception, differentiating between right and wrong, and making difficult choices complicated by issues of social justice. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Trends in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Engineering Miguel Botto-Tobar, Omar S. Gómez, Raul Rosero Miranda, Angela Díaz Cadena, Washington Luna-Encalada, 2023-02-13 This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Emerging Trends and Technologies (ICAETT 2022), held in Riobamba, Ecuador, on 26–28 October 2022, proudly organized by Facultad de Informática y Electrónica (FIE) at Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo and supported by GDEON. ICAETT 2022 brings together top researchers and practitioners working in different domains of computer science to share their expertise and to discuss future developments and potential collaborations. Presenting high-quality, peer-reviewed papers, the book discusses the following topics: ● Artificial intelligence ● Communications ● e-Learning ● AT for engineering applications ● Security ● Technology trends |
| argumentative text characteristics: The Firm, Fair, Fascinating Facilitator Robert Ward, 2015-11-30 Finally become the teacher you always dreamed of—and the teacher your students always needed. This is the book every educator has waited for! A current classroom teacher honestly and empathetically addresses the struggles and frustrations teachers face today, while also offering straightforward, realistic solutions and sound strategies to meet those challenges head on with renewed confidence, enthusiasm, and efficacy. This book illustrates a commonsense, multi-dimensional teaching approach that consistently attends to the essential needs of all students by motivating them on four fundamental fronts: Firmness provides safety, security, and structure that engenders courteous student cooperation and orderly classroom management. Fairness fosters caring, community, and recognition that supports a strong teacher-student rapport and personalized attention. Fascination delivers passion, pertinence, and peer interaction that evokes sustained student engagement and investment. Facilitation furnishes differentiated lessons and formative feedback that ensures increased student achievement and independence. A Firm, Fair, Fascinating Facilitator simultaneously supplies all four of these indispensable student necessities because every child requires leadership and limits, understanding and encouragement, meaning and inspiration, as well as excellent instruction in order to reach their full potential. This book has it all because our students need it all! |
| argumentative text characteristics: Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards Richard Beach, Amanda Haertling Thein, Allen Webb, 2012-06-25 As the new English Language Arts Common Core State Standards take hold across the United States, the need grows for pre-service and in-service teachers to be ready to develop curriculum and instruction that addresses their requirements. This timely, thoughtful, and comprehensive text directly meets this need. It delineates a literacy practices and critical engagement curriculum framework for 6-12 English language arts education that explains and illustrates how the Standards’ highest and best intentions for student success can be implemented from a critical, culturally relevant perspective that is firmly grounded in current literacy learning theory and research. The first 6-12 English language arts methods text to be aligned with the Standards, this book also addresses their limitations — formalist assumptions about literacy learning, limited attention to media/digital literacies, lack of attention to critical literacies, and questionable assumptions about linking standards and text complexity to specific grade levels. Specific examples of teachers using the literacy practices/critical engagement curriculum framework in their classrooms shows how these limitations can be surpassed. Features • Moves the CCSS framework into a view that literacy is a contextualized, social practice • Challenges simplistic models that homogenize adolescent learners • Adds the important element of critical literacy to English language arts classrooms • Provides specific examples of teachers in action implementing these practices • Interactive Companion Website with student and instructor resources. The Website is designed to foster interactivity through participation in an online teaching planning simulation with a text, video, or case on one side of the screen and a chat box for instructors and students to share their reactions and planning ideas. The Companion Website is linked to a wiki that serves as a repository for links, activities/units, and further reading. |
| argumentative text characteristics: How Students Write: A Linguistic Analysis Laura Louise Aull, 2020-04-01 Broad generalizations about people today are a familiar feature of first-year student writing. How Students Write brings a fresh perspective to this perennial observation, using corpus linguistics techniques. This study analyzes sentence-level patterns in student writing to develop an understanding of how students present evidence, draw connections between ideas, relate to their readers, and, ultimately, learn to construct knowledge in their writing. Drawing on both first-year and upper-level student writing, the book examines the discourse of students at different points in their education. It also distinguishes between argumentative and analytic essays to explore the way school genres and assignments shape students' choices. In focusing on sentence-level features such as hedges (perhaps) and boosters (definitely), this study shows how such rhetorical choices work together to open or close opportunities for thoughtful exchanges of ideas. Attention to these features can help instructors foster civil discourse, design effective assignments, and expose and question norms of higher education. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Assessment of Higher Order Thinking Skills Gregory Schraw, Daniel H. Robinson, 2011-10-01 This volume examines the assessment of higher order thinking skills from the perspectives of applied cognitive psychology and measurement theory. The volume considers a variety of higher order thinking skills, including problem solving, critical thinking, argumentation, decision making, creativity, metacognition, and self-regulation. Fourteen chapters by experts in learning and measurement comprise four sections which address conceptual approaches to understanding higher order thinking skills, cognitively oriented assessment models, thinking in the content domains, and practical assessment issues. The volume discusses models of thinking skills, as well as applied issues related to the construction, validation, administration and scoring of perfomancebased, selected-response, and constructed-response assessments. The goal of the volume is to promote a better theoretical understanding of higher order thinking in order to facilitate instruction and assessment of those skills among students in all K-12 content domains, as well as professional licensure and cetification settings. |
| argumentative text characteristics: Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past Janne Skaffari, 2005-01-01 Some of these windows were opened by historical linguists who have acquired discourse perspectives, some by pragmaticians with historical interests, and others by literary scholars drawing from linguistic pragmatics.--BOOK JACKET. |
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| argumentative text characteristics: Language and Character in Euripides' Electra Evert van Emde Boas, 2017-01-26 This study of Euripides' Electra approaches the text through the lens of modern linguistics, marrying it with traditional literary criticism in order to provide new and informative means of analysing and interpreting what is considered to be one of the playwright's most controversial works. It is the first systematic attempt to apply a variety of modern linguistic theories, including conversation analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics (on gender and politeness), paroemiology, and discourse studies, to a single Greek tragedy. The volume focuses specifically on issues of characterization, demonstrating how Euripides shaped his figures through their use of language, while also using the same methodology to tackle some of the play's major textual issues. An introductory chapter treats each of the linguistic approaches used throughout the book, and discusses some of the general issues surrounding the play's interpretation. This is followed by chapters on the figures of the Peasant, Electra herself, and Orestes, in each case showing how their characterization is determined by their speaking style and their 'linguistic behaviour'. Three further chapters focus on textual criticism in stichomythia, on the messenger speech, and on the agon. By using modern linguistic methodologies to argue for a balanced interpretation of the Electra's main characters, the volume both challenges dominant scholarly opinion and enhances the literary interpretation of this well-studied play. Taking full account of recent and older work in both linguistics and classics, it will be of use to readers and researchers in both fields, and includes translations of all Greek cited and a glossary of linguistic terminology to make the text accessible to both. |
| argumentative text characteristics: The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar Thomas Hoffmann, Graeme Trousdale, 2013-02-22 The last decade has seen a rise in popularity in construction-based approaches to grammar. The various approaches within the rubric 'construction grammar' all see language as a network of constructions-pairings of form and meaning. Construction Grammar, as a kind of cognitive linguistics, differs significantly from mainstream generative grammar as espoused by Chomsky and his followers. Advocates of Construction Grammar see it as a psychologically plausible theory of human language. As such, it is capable of providing a principled account of language acquisition, language variation and language change. Research in Construction Grammar also includes multidisciplinary cognitive studies in psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and computational linguistics. The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar is the first authoritative reference work solely dedicated to Construction Grammar. Divided into five sections, the book will be an invaluable resource that students and scholars alike can turn to for a comprehensive account of current work on Construction Grammar, its theoretical foundations, and its applications to and relationship with other kinds of linguistic enquiry. |
| argumentative text characteristics: The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing Tara Mokhtari, 2015-01-29 Covering a wide range of forms and genres, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing is a complete introductory manual for students of creative writing. Through a structured series of practical writing exercises – perfect for the classroom, the writer's workshop or as a starting point for a portfolio of work – the book builds the student writer from the first explorations of their own voice, through to mastery of a wide range of genres and forms. The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing covers such genres as: · Autobiographical writing · Short fiction · Poetry · Screenwriting · Writing for performance · Writing for digital media With practical guidance on writing scholarly critiques of your own work and a glossary of terms for ease of reference, this book is an essential manual for any introductory creative writing course and a practical companion for more advanced writers. |
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ARGUMENTATIVE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of ARGUMENTATIVE is given to argument : tending to argue : having or showing a tendency to disagree or argue with other people in an angry way : disputatious. How to use …
ARGUMENTATIVE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
The concept of an argumentative structure, with the two notions of argument and acceptability, are a convenient framework for developing practical reasoning tools.
ARGUMENTATIVE Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
an argumentative attitude toward political issues. Law. arguing or containing arguments suggesting that a certain fact tends toward a certain conclusion. “Collins English Dictionary — …
Argumentative vs. Argumentive – What’s the Difference? - GRAMMARIST
If you’re describing someone who often argues or likes to engage in heated debates, argumentative is the adjective you’re looking for. But, again, argumentive is accepted by some …
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Definition of argumentative adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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