Different types of writing: Critical reasoning

What kind of writing is illustrated in the passage below?

It is granite country and a number of isolated kopjes half-covered with straggly bush growth can be seen scattered around. Half-way up one of these small kopjes is a large granite boulder wedged in a small rock-shelter… covered with paintings, there being also some nearly weathered away examples on the ceiling of the rock-shelter itself (Burkitt, 1928, p. 117)

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What kind of writing is illustrated in the passage below?

As he turned into Drexel Boulevard and headed toward Daltons’, he thought of how restless he had been, how he was consumed always with a body hunger. Well, in a way he had settled that tonight; as time passed he would make it more definite (Wright [1940]2000, p. 180).

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What kind of writing is illustrated in the passage below?

Epistemology is the philosophical study of theories of knowledge.

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What kind of writing is illustrated in the passage below?

It is through this distinction between distinct objects of sensation and perception that Aquinas’s account of perception transcends the limits of British empiricism. Sensation, for Aquinas, is the awareness of what he… calls the proper and the common sensibles

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What kind of writing is illustrated in the passage below?

You programme the washing machine by first setting on the power switch, after which you turn the dial to the required setting. I recommend you use the economy one. And then you press the start button

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What kind of writing is illustrated in the passage below?

“An increasing body of research within environmental and development studies contains approaches that can be deployed to rebuild environmental explanations on realist grounds” (Forsyth, 2001, p. 150).

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What kind of writing is illustrated in the passage below?

“‘I am sending a delegation to tell Hamilton Hope that my uncle Gxumisa will lead the men against Magwayi,’ said Mhlontlo. ‘I will no longer be available to take part in any blood-spilling.’

He had to mourn his wife. He could not go into battle. The ukuzila custom forbade it. He would have to mourn for many moons since this was his wife of the Great House, and therefore the Queen-Mother of all the wives and children from all the Houses” (Mda, 2015).

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What kind of writing is illustrated in the passage below?

The dominance of Western empiricism, exercised in the global South through colonial expansion, left systems of knowledge among colonised peoples devoid of their own identity, with the scar of perpetual inferiority ever looming large because our epistemologies held on to metaphysics, values and beauty.

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What kind of writing is illustrated in the passage below?

Write an essay of not more than 1 000 words on the topic that follows making sure that you follow the norms of essay writing, including appropriate referencing…

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What kind of writing is illustrated in the passage below?

There is much to remember

and little to forget

When greatness

Dies a simple death

For souls of men [Chisiza in Cook and Rubadiri (2009, p. 141)].

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