Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Advanced Education, Management and Humanities (AEMH 2019)

Register Framework: An Effective Mode for Assessing Argumentative Writing

Authors
Huimin Deng
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Huimin Deng
Available Online October 2019.
DOI
10.2991/aemh-19.2019.34How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Field-tenor-mode framework, Argumentative writing, Register consistence, Discourse coherence
Abstract

In light of Systemic Functional Linguistics, this paper uses the field-tenor-mode framework as an analytic tool to help students produce and analyze argumentative writing. The text to be analyzed was selected from the book A Writer's Reference with 2016 MLA Update authored by the founder of WAC Writing Program of the Education Institute in Harvard University. It’s typical and referential for the purpose of this paper. The discourse markers in the text were highlighted and analyzed to address two issues: how to achieve the consistency of field, tenor and mode in an argumentative essay, and what implications does the register consistency have for the discourse coherence of the whole essay. This SFL-informed literacy instruction is not just to provide students a useful tool for writing a powerful argumentative essay, but it also expands on the existing literature as a pedagogical guideline, a checklist for peer review and a rubric for assessment.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Advanced Education, Management and Humanities (AEMH 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
October 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-809-3
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/aemh-19.2019.34How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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