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