Table 4 Overview of Ms Cheng’s teaching contents in EW II
Theme | NO. of slides | Details | Genres involved |
|---|---|---|---|
Topic sentence | 13 | characteristics: focused, manageable, discussable, interesting; placement | exposition, descriptive report |
Paragraph development | 12 | unity; coherence; ordering of information | observation, recount, descriptive report, sequential explanation, factorial explanation, |
Exposition | To convey information or explain | ||
Exemplification | 5 | choose appropriate examples | exposition |
Process analysis | 5 | step-by-step process of how to do things; how something is done/made; how something happened | procedure, procedural recount, autobiographical recount |
Cause-effect analysis | 6 | [background/phenomenon ^ cause 1, 2, 3…/effects 1, 2, 3… ^ restatement] (c.f., Phenomenon ^ Factor 1, 2, 3…/Consequence 1, 2, 3… ^ Deduction) | factorial explanation, consequential explanation |
Argumentation | 19 | to persuade; four core elements: issue, claim, support, refutation; from more than one side | exposition, discussion, challenge |