Functional Styles. Афанасьева Н.Р - 4 стр.

       Radial structure – the information is presented several times       UNIT 2
from different vantage points and the author may get back to his main      SCIENTIFIC PROSE STYLE
claim several times repeating or paraphrasing it, giving various sup-
porting arguments and evidence. This may be necessary when writing
                                                                            Function                                                                    Features
for the general reader.




                                                                                proving a hypothesis and creating new concepts
                                                                                                                                 • objective, precise, and mostly unemotional language
  supporting
     Thesis      supporting     supporting    supporting     supporting
  statements
   statement     statements     statements    statements     statements
                                                                                                                                 means; words used in primary logical meaning
                                                                                                                                 • use of terms and learned words
                                                                                                                                 • impersonality and generalized form of expression
       Concatenation (chain structure) – the thesis statement tends to                                                           reflected in the choice of grammar and syntactic con-
the beginning; the information is not repeated several times. The struc-                                                         structions
ture is used when communicating with a specialist in the sphere dis-                                                             • logical sequence of utterances
cussed.                                                                                                                          • most developed system of connectives
                                                                                                                                 • accepted sentence-patterns:
                                                                                                                                 postulatory, argumentative, and formulative
                                                                                                                                 • use of quotations and references
                                                                                                                                 • use of footnotes both of the reference kind and di-
                                                                                                                                 gressive in character



                                                                           PRACTICE
                                                                           TEXT 1
                                                                           1. Do you know what a snowflake consists of and how the snowfall
                                                                              occurs? Could you give a scientific explanation to this phenome-
                                                                              non? Try to do it.
                                                                           2. Read the article and check your guesses.

                                                                                 A snowfall consists of myriads of minute ice crystals that fall to
                                                                           the ground in the form of frozen precipitation. The formation of snow
                                                                           begins with these ice crystals in the subfreezing strata of the middle
                                                                           and upper atmosphere when there is an adequate supply of moisture

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