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    This document provides transitional phrases for introducing opinions in persuasive writing, as well as discussing skimming and scanning techniques for reading comprehension. It introduces phrases like "In my opinion" and "I believe" to signal the introduction of a point of view. It also defines skimming as getting the general gist or overview of a document, while scanning refers to locating specific information by ignoring unrelated parts of the text.

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    Transitional Phrases: Persuasive Writing: Signal Words

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    This document provides transitional phrases for introducing opinions in persuasive writing, as well as discussing skimming and scanning techniques for reading comprehension. It introduces phrases like "In my opinion" and "I believe" to signal the introduction of a point of view. It also defines skimming as getting the general gist or overview of a document, while scanning refers to locating specific information by ignoring unrelated parts of the text.

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    Persuasive Writing: Signal Words

    TRANSITIONAL PHRASES
    INTRODUCTORY
    PHRASES
    In my opinion
    There is no doubt that I question whether
    I believe
    From my point of view
    I (dis) agree with
    It is my belief that
    It seems to me that
    I maintain that
    This story's Moral is that we make tiger filial piety ones mirror, we should be filial to
    ones parents.
    DISCUSSION TOPICS:
    Story 2: What role does the tiger play in the social stratification of society? What is the
    mountain spirit? How does the tiger make life better or worse for the people in this story?
    Was there a real tiger or an imagined tiger?
    You skim to get the gist or general overview.
    You scan to locate specific information.

    Skimming refers to the process of reading only main ideas within a passage to get an
    overall impression of the content of a reading
    selection.
    Scanning is a reading technique to be used when you want to find specific information
    quickly. In scanning you have a question in your mind and you read a passage only to
    find the answer, ignoring unrelated information.

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