COR 7

• State your assertions regarding the text or the author’s ideas.
• Cite the actual statements in the text that led you to make such assertions.
• Explain your assertions. Place them side by side with the author’s assertions.
• the primary purpose of a literary text is to entertain or amuse readers, it may contain political messages, religious beliefs, or other kinds of assertions.
• Persuasive texts like advertisements, campaign speeches, and persuasive essays have assertions that are not always backed up by evidence.
• Argumentative texts have assertions that are supported by evidence like facts, statistics, and examples. Also, they present opposing arguments and rebuttals for those arguments.
• Assertion a statement or declaration made regarding an idea, a topic, or an issue expresses a person’s opinions, feelings, or beliefs
• Basic assertion – This is a simple and direct expression of one’s opinions, feelings, or beliefs.
• Empathic 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.
• Positive assertion – This expresses positive feelings or emotions. To make this assertion, one gives a reason or an explanation for a good feeling or opinion.
• Confrontive 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 done.
• Escalating 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.
• I-language assertion – expresses negative feelings by describing the person’s feelings toward a certain negative behavior and states what he or she desires to happen.