Unit 12

• a statement or declaration made regarding an idea, a topic, or an issue

  • expresses a person's opinions, feelings, or beliefs.

  Assertion
• This is a simple and direct expression of one’s opinions, feelings, or beliefs

  Basic assertion
• This shows sympathy to another person. It is an acknowledgment of the other person’s feelings or situation and, at the same, time a show of support to the rights of the person.

  Emphatic assertion
• This expresses positive feelings or emotions. To make this assertion, one gives a reason or an explanation for a good feeling or opinion.

  Positive assertion
• This states three closely related actions: an action that was supposed to be done, the actual action, and the action that the speaker wants to be done.

  Confrontive assertion
• This is a firm but respectful statement made by a person who is expecting another person’s response to his or her earlier assertion. However, the other person has not given any response.

  Escalating Assertion
• This expresses negative feelings. It describes the person’s feelings toward a certain negative behavior and states what he or she desires to happen


  I-language assertion
• like advertisements, campaign speeches, and persuasive essays have assertions that are not always backed up by evidence

  Persuasive texts
• have assertions that are supported by evidence like facts, statistics, and examples. Also, they present opposing arguments and rebuttals for those arguments.

  Argumentative assertion