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Download full textGardner, Sheena; Han, Chao – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2018
One of the fundamental ways in which knowledge develops is through contrast. This applies not only to the development of ideas and theories in argumentative texts, but also to the contrasting of new findings with old in experimental reports. Contrast, then, is central to the development of academic knowledge. A common finding in contrastive…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Contrastive Linguistics, Chinese, English
