This study investigates some the reading passages in terms of hortatory messages. To this end amethodology based on Critical Discourse Analysis was adopted. The reading texts from ELTtextbooks were examined through a model which drew on Fairclough's approach to CDA,specifically (Fairclough, 2003) in which three characteristic features of hortatory texts areintroduced. The analysis reveals that ...

This study aims to find the rhetorical structure of Move and Step which are often found in Speaking for Presentation class. Additionally, this research looks into typical pattern students’ presentations used a mixed-method strategy that incorporates qualitative quantitative data. The object is 30 video 4th-semester English education students from class at Bengkulu University. From study, it was...

In case anyone saw an inteTesting-sounding title to my talk in the printed program, I should announce a change. The new title is "Caveat Venditor," let the seller beware. Having found a title, let me try to set a tone. My text is taken from an editorial in the Winter, 1944, Public Opinion Quarterly, the opening line of which reads: "For the first time, public opinion polls are the subject of se...

Abstract International conservation presents a unique challenge for American agencies, demanding policy tools. To encourage citizens to support overseas conservation, the Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Postal environmental non-governmental organizations collaborated create Save Vanishing Species Stamp, semipostal stamp featuring tiger. In doing this, these actors relied on flagship sp...