Evaluating and Selecting Counterarguments: Studies of Children's Rhetorical Awareness  

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Leitao, Selma

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Written Communication ( sebagian Full Text) vol. 20 no. 3 (Jul. 2003), page 269-306.
Topik: argumentation; argumentative writing; children’s writing; counterargumentation
Fulltext: 269.pdf (214.13KB)

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This article investigates children’s evaluation/selection of ideas in writing-related tasks. The critical dimension being considered was to what extent the communicative goal that defines argumentation establishes basic criteria with which children decide whether to include counterargument in a text. Data analysis focused on participants’ decisions and, most important, the rationales theypr esent for their decisions. Two constraints seem to drive evaluation/selection processes. First, the content constraint, wherebya writer focuses on agreement with the idea itself; second, the rhetorical constraint, defined as a writer’s perception of an idea’s value in increasing the acceptabilityof his or her point of view. Counterargumentation must be perceived as a valuable rhetorical strategyif specific counterarguments are to be incorporated into a text; otherwise, counterargumentation remains part of the process of selection/evaluation without becoming explicit in the product of such a process—the text.

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