Chapter 7: Stance And Voice Across A Text

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   Sprint 7.1: Comment Adverbs

   Learner uses adverbs that comment on the fact rather than modify the verb, signalling stance economically — and only where the paragraph has earned the comment.

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   Sprint 7.2: Attributing And Distancing

   Learner reports a claim while signalling scepticism — essential for Reading writer-attitude questions and useful in Writing, where the strong markers accuse and must be earned.

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   Sprint 7.3: Conceding Without Weakening

   Learner concedes a genuine point while keeping the position intact, going beyond the sentence-level concession taught at Band 6→7.

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   Sprint 7.4: Managing The Counter-Argument

   Learner names and dismantles a counter-argument explicitly — the structural move that separates a Band 8 both-views essay from a Band 7 one.

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   Sprint 7.5: Closing With Force

   Learner concludes by stating what the argument established, rather than restating the introduction in different words.

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6. 06

   Chapter 7 Review: Every Phrase Is A Promise

   Learner consolidates all thirty items as promises the surrounding sentences must keep, and can name the ones they will deliberately not use under exam conditions.

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