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Level 6, Module 3: academic passages, the writer’s views and the hardest question types.
5 lessons, 46 min
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Module 27
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Counted from its lessons.
- Lessons
- 5
- Study time
- 46 min
- Questions to answer
- 23
The lessons
Lessons in this module
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- How an academic argument is builtFind the moves of an academic argument (claim, evidence, counter-claim, conclusion), tell the writer’s view from views they report, then practise headings, Yes/No/Not Given and a flow-chart.
- Reading the writer's attitude and purposeWork out why a passage was written and what the writer thinks, from evaluative words, reporting verbs and how certain they sound; then match views to the people who hold them.
- Unpacking long, dense sentencesRead long academic sentences with ease: find the subject and the main verb first, set aside the extra clauses, turn nouns back into actions, then complete sentences and notes.
- Inference: what the writer implies but never statesDraw the conclusions a text supports without stating them, read the hints in words like ‘even’, ‘only’ and ‘instead’, and reject options that go further than the text.
- Precise word meanings from context cluesWork out what an unfamiliar word means, and how strong it is, from clues around it; then find the exact words a summary, a sentence or a diagram label needs.