TEKS Terminology: Understanding Modes of Discourse

As state and national curriculum standards continue to change, it is important for teachers to develop a common set of definitions for terms that appear in those standards. This column describes the four modes of discourse--narrative, descriptive, exposition, and persuasion--and links them to a vari...

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Veröffentlicht in:	English in Texas 2017, Vol.47 (1), p.41
Hauptverfasser:	Rodriguez, Regina Chanel, Rose, Shona, Coneway, Betty
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