Back to my learning path

ConnectionOcean · Use it with someone

Controlling rhetorical nuance

Take the skill from your lesson into a focused text, voice, or video conversation with a ConnectionOcean member.

Main goal

Use understatement, marked contrast, and evaluative framing to control the force of criticism without obscuring the judgement.

  • It is not entirely persuasive because…
  • At best, this establishes…
  • It falls well short of demonstrating…
  • What is ostensibly… is, in fact,…
  • We can be measured without being equivocal.

Useful words and phrases

It is not entirely persuasive because…At best, this establishes…It falls well short of demonstrating…What is ostensibly… is, in fact,…We can be measured without being equivocal.

Correction preferences

Correction preference
Conversation format

C2 · Voice conversation · 30 minutes

Find speakers of this language