4B. Wrrite a thesis statement that rquires proof or defense and that may preview the structure of the argument.
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One of the most difficult tasks for many students is in finding what I'm calling "rhetorically useful verbs" as opposed to the rhetorically useless ones like "uses" (as in the perennial favorite, "the author uses diction"). Another task students may struggle with are the idiomatic conventions associated with certain verbs.
Below, you will see a number of rhetorically useful verbs. These are fairly common, and in fact, for beginning writers, the common ones are definitely the ones you'll want to stick with. Along with them are the typical idiomatic phrases or uses and some examples. That way, you won't get students writing sentences like "Bob questions in this speech." (Questions whom? Questions what?) |
Verbs and Examples
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