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How To Write A Discussion Text
How To Write A Discussion Text
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pictures and
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photographs.
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Should animals
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school?
Should Fox/Whale
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My Discussion Checklist
by-pass?
Logical connectives
Complex sentences
or helped?
Present tense
To balances all points of view
How
to
Write a
Discussion
Text
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Tricks of the
trade!
Use a question
for the title.
Should childre
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do homework?
Introduce the
reader to the
discussion
and why you ar
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t it.
Keep the argu
ment balanced
and present
both points of
view as fairly
as possible.
Support each
sides point of
view with
reasons and ev
idence.
If you presen
t your own po
int of view in
the conclusion
, give the reas
ons for your
decision.