Fact and Opinion
Recognizing and interpreting statements of opinion
Recognizing and interpreting statements of fact
Understanding and producing critiques
Understanding signpost expressions that limit or define
Bias
Neutrality of vocabulary
Sign phrases
Tone
Source and author purpose
Connotation
Words may carry positive or negative connotations. For example, easygoing(+)-relaxed-laidback(-).
Include: humorous, approving, disapproving, persuasive, objective, informative, formal.
significant positive or negative oppinion
For example, in4 in textbook, or in a magazine news report, or in a newspaper, is meant to inform, typically in unbiased manner. On the other hand the objective of blog posts, editorials, and feature articles tends to be to persuade (include oppinion).
According to X, Apparently, From my perspective, In my experience, In my oppinion, In my view, It is the oppinion of X that, It may be that, X considered, X suggest/state
Hedging
Direct and indirect qoutes
Informative or enumerative form
Phrases suggesting a citation, including:
According to, As reported by, As stated in, It is a fact that, The author discusses/explains/writes, etc, The facts show that, The results demonstrate/indicate
IT appears, it could be the case that, may/might/can/could, probable/possible, some, tend to, X indicate, X suggest
enumerative is more detailed than informative and include statistics, and alway is facts
reasonable, applying criteria that can reasonably be met
Fair, critiques often balance positive and negative remarks
criteria
Include hedging and certainly languages
Evidence or explain for evaluating remarks
Speculate, often include unreal conditionals.
Evaluative remarks
Limitation signpost is used to introduce and limit particular topic of the sentence, to make sure that reader not refer to other areas
All that matters, As far as X(goes), by X, by way of, considering, difining X as, given X, ifwe define, in tems of, in the are/field/realm of, in the sense that/of, limiting ourselves/our consideration to, speaking of, the extent to which, using X, when it comes to, when we consider, within the limits of, X is defined by