Analysis:Informative Discourse

Description

Description

• What patterns are there?• What parts are there?• What’s most important?• What’s the function?• (What emotive language has been used?)

Always look at the ‘trees’…

Do we have an eye for detail?

Don’t forget the ‘forest’…

There are more than

1.5 million galaxies!

Comparison

• What’s the same? What’s different? What’s significantly similar or different?

• What has changed or has not changed?

• What’s the relationship (if any)?

• Why is one better or worse than the other?

Why and how do people change

over time?

Explanation

• What is the cause and what is the effect?

• What is the causal sequence?

• Is it a cause or merely a correlation?

• Bank Negara has not reduced interest rates because it does not want to fuel inflation in the economy

• The Economics teacher explained to the Head of School that the reason the number of students taking the class has dropped is because the class was scheduled at the same time as a very popular soap opera

• Dustin uses a weight belt when he lifts so that he does not get a hernia.

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