Revision: Tone of voice and Text Structures

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 4,5

 Text structures

Objectives:

You understand the concept of paragraph development

You can identify the different text structures

1. Understanding text structures and paragraph development can help you make and interpret arguments.

2. CITO expects you to be able to identify text structures and understand paragraph development.

Revision

The role(s) and different types of the development section of a paragraph

This part of the paragraph elaborates the controlling idea expressed in the topic sentence.

There are several ways to do so.

• Describing:  presenting more information about the controlling idea. 

• Exemplifying: using examples to illustrate the controlling idea. 

• Analyzing comparing and contrasting concepts associated with the
         controlling idea. 

• Challenging:  questioning information or perspectives related to the
         controlling idea. 

• Persuading: building an argument around the controlling idea and its
         relationship to the specific argument it is part of. 

• Presenting supporting evidence - giving references to e.g., sources, experts.

Text structure 

Refers to how information is organized in a passage (so how the controlling idea in a paragraph is developed). 

Multiple text structures can be found within a work and even within a paragraph. 

   

at a glance

In pairs

Read and complete texts 5 and 6 from 2021 TV III