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Analysing argumentative writing

English in Education, 2005
This article presents a framework which has proven helpful in analysing senior secondary academic writing from a linguistic and cognitive perspective, revealing a connection between those two aspects, consistent with a Vygotskian view of the development of thinking through language.
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Argument structures in Chinese university students’ argumentative writing

English Text Construction, 2015
Situated within a Systemic Functional Linguistics genre paradigm, this study adopted a function-based linguistic approach to examine the argument structures in English writing produced by Chinese university students of English as foreign language (EFL).
Xinghua Liu, Clare Furneaux
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Why Students Can’t Write Arguments

English in Education, 1984
(1984). Why Students Can’t Write Arguments. English in Education: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 73-84.
Aviva Freedman, Ian Pringle
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Instructional discourse and argumentative writing

International Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Abstract Fifth-grade students from two urban school districts completed an integrated unit on wolves. Classes received either direct instruction (DI) or collaborative group work (CG). Analysis of reasoning in classroom talk indicated that CG students more often used connective and contrastive words and the performative verb phrases I think and I know
Joshua A. Morris, Brian W. Miller, Richard C. Anderson, Kim Thi Nguyen-Jahiel, Tzu-Jung Lin, Theresa Scott, Jie Zhang, Jingjing Sun, Shufeng Ma   +8 more
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Writing for publication: Argument and evidence

Women and Birth, 2008
The rules for writing a research report for publication are well defined but are much less clear for scholarly scientific papers. The purpose of this paper is to enable new writers to confidently apply the skills of scientific writing within a scholarly paper for publication.
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Writing for publication: Argument and evidence

Women and Birth
The rules for writing a research report are well defined but novice writers need more clarification on writing scholarly scientific papers for publication. The purpose of this paper is to enable novice writers to confidently apply the skills of scientific writing to the development of a scholarly paper for publication.
S, Meedya, H, Zedan, D, Davis
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Intervention Instruction in Argumentative Writing

Journal of Education, 2017
To investigate instructional planning strategies that impact student improvement in argumentative writing, the teacher-researcher implemented an Integrated Writing intervention in a seventh-grade urban school classroom to impact student writing, student feedback, and teacher reflection.
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Discourse problems in argumentative writing

World Englishes, 1994
ABSTRACT: This study aims to investigate the discourse problems in argumentative writing. To achieve this objective, the researchers collected a sample of 62 essays written by the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th level students at the Department of English and Translation, Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University.
FAWWAZ AL‐ABED AL‐HAQ, AHMED S. E. A. AHMED   +1 more
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Argumentative text writing: Developmental trends

Discourse Processes, 1994
Although children exhibit oral argumentative capabilities at a very young age, the ability to carry out the same argumentative processes in writing seems to be acquired later. The present study focuses on argumentative negotiation, a process by which speakers “remove themselves” from their discourse, thereby providing “room for discussion” with their ...
Caroline Golder, Pierre Coirier
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Assessment of Argumentative Writing

2005
When producing an argumentative text, writers have to solve problems that are specific for that type of text. The nature and severity of these problems, i.e., the specific problem area of argumentation in written discourse, can be characterized with the help of concepts from the pragma-dialectical argumentation theory (Van Eemeren & Grootendorst, 1984).
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