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Certainty Judgements and the Status of Propositions in Undergraduate Essays
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Siew Mei, Wu – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2013
This paper explores the expression of certainty in a set of high- and low-rated Geography argumentative essays. Using one aspect of Hunston's (1989, 2000) concept of the evaluation of status, the paper compares the statement types used to construe the writer's expression of certainty in the construction of arguments. Drawing on the framework,…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Essays, Undergraduate Students, Persuasive Discourse