Goal-directed cognitive activity that involves the formation of arguments and inferences that may be based on formal logic, informal premises and everyday knowledge. In the context of literacy and genre theory, reasoning refers more specifically to meaning-making, since choice of text type has the function of making particular connections between ideas, back-grounding some and fore-fronting others. Thus, reasoning is constructed through the text, which may be written in, for example, the scientific genre. Hence. it takes a particular form. <\/p>\n
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