Sentence examples for sequential explanation from inspiring English sources

Thus both texts are organized globally in terms of 'internal' rather than 'external' relations, in contrast with Text 1 (expounding: explaining: factorial explanation), Text 3 (expounding: explaining: sequential explanation) and Text 4 (reporting: chronicling: news report).

Only one sequential explanation task was found in all the tasks which was "Write a paragraph in ENGLISH giving your own interpretation of BOTH the likely CAUSES and CONSEQUENCES of this situation," which was prepared by Waseda University.

The fact that personal reflections account for 41.1 %, while only one sequential explanation and no descriptive micro-genres exist in the Japanese examinations, as mentioned previously in this section, may limit students' success in writing texts in other micro-genres.

Salient differences include the fact that the proportion of personal reflections (46.1 %) outnumbered that of expositions in humanities and arts (38.5 %) and science faculties did not prepare a task which requires examinees to write a sequential explanation text.

While both the factorial explanation analysed in Figure 8 and the news report analysed in Figure 17 are texts organized as expansions of a central nuclear segment (unlike the sequential explanation in Figure 18) and the Korean Air text is similar in this respect, there is a fundamental difference.

Scores provided by the test were 0.9 for expositions (analytical), 0.4 for expositions (hortatory), 1.0 for personal reflections (opinion), 0.7 for personal reflections (imaginary), 0.9 for personal reflections (descriptive), 0.8 for discussions, 1.0 for sequential explanation, and 1.0 for an unclear task.

It was found that only four micro-genres occurred in the examinations, namely expositions, personal reflections, discussions, and sequential explanations.

However, while sequential explanations are concerned with general classes of events (like the refining process), historical recounts are concerned with particular events.

The texts whose high-level organization is dominated by multi-nuclear complexes include those structured by relations of temporal sequence — sequential explanations, recounts, tales, and procedures.

Historical recounts (see e.g. Coffin, 2006; Christie and Derewianka 2008; Martin and Rose 2008) resemble sequential explanations in that they are organized globally as temporal sequences.

Martin and Rose (2008) present a wide range of micro-genres which consist of stories, histories, reports and explanations, and procedures and procedural recounts, and other specific micro-genres such as sequential explanations or expositions.