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Delivering a Coherent Extended Argument

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  • Communicative Objective: Develop the ability to construct and deliver an extended, logically organized argument that integrates evidence, counterarguments, qualification, examples, and a well-supported conclusion.
  • 5 Core Functional Sentences:
    1. At first glance, the proposal appears economically attractive; nevertheless, a closer examination reveals several potentially significant drawbacks.
    2. Admittedly, the immediate financial benefits are difficult to dismiss, particularly given the pressures currently facing the organization.
    3. What must also be considered, however, is whether those short-term savings would ultimately generate greater long-term costs.
    4. Had comparable organizations not experienced similar difficulties, such concerns might reasonably be regarded as overly cautious.
    5. On the evidence currently available, the most defensible conclusion is that implementation should proceed gradually and remain subject to continuous evaluation.
  • Grammar Focus: Advanced discourse cohesion, concessive adverbials, cleft structures, inverted third conditionals, embedded interrogative clauses, modal qualification, and complex evaluative noun phrases.
  • Vocabulary Focus: drawback, admittedly, defensible, implementation, evaluation
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