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Social Function:

• To present (at least) two points of view about an issue.

Generic structure:

1. issue

consists of statement and preview

2. arguments for (pro) and against (contra) or statements of different point of view

consists of point and elaboration

3. conclusion or recommendation

significant language features:

• Focus on generic human and non human participants
• Use of material processes (e.g has produced, have developed, to feed, etc), relational processes (e.g. could have, cause, are), and mental processes (e.g . feel, think, etc).
• Use comparative, contrastive and consequential conjunction

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