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TEXT AND DISCOURSE FLOW: THE SENTENCE AND BEYOND
The chapters in Part III move from the major sentence elements to clauses and rhetorical features of text. Chapter 10 covers the construction and dis- course functions of adverbial, adjective, and noun clauses, and how these subordinate clauses can be taught.
Chapter 11 focuses on rhetorical features of text that can improve the co- hesion and coherence of NNS text, including cohesive ties and lexical sub- stitution, lexical and semantic cohesion, phrase-level conjunctions, parallel structure, and sentence transitions. Other rhetorical features that are dis- cussed deal with rhetorical questions and exemplification.
Chapter 12 covers how to explain and teach academic hedging to NNS writers. The need for hedging statements, generalizations, and claims in ac- ademic prose is not an obvious consideration for many NNS writers and has to be explicitly addressed.
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