As relações de causa e consequência como estratégia em textos dissertativo-argumentativos

Abstract

The race for a job opportunity, or even a vacancy in public universities, has become a fierce dispute for those who desire to compete for one of these vacancies by attending to public tender. It is notorious that one of the criteria adopted by the evaluating banks is essays with texts of argumentative dissertation nature. Because it is not an easy task to write a text that meets the criteria of the evaluating banks, the writing has developed into a challenge for those who dream of a change at universities. Because it is a very complicated and extremely complex activity, the production of text requires the student a cognitive ability, as well as a good lexical encyclopedia. The essay not only evaluates the writing of the candidates, but also the ability to expose their knowledge to highly relevant social issues. Faced with some adversities encountered by those who crave to work on argumentative dissertation texts, this work aims to present a strategy that will simplify for anyone who thus wishes to master the challenges of the essays. The methodology adopted in this work consists of bibliographic research so that it would support the arguments mentioned above. As well as, topics considered particularly relevant were addressed, which thus consider the thesis presented. Among them are language, language and speech; language and text; textuality and its five elements; argumentation; discursive language; argumentative operators; coherence and textual cohesion; textual typology and its genres; and the operators of cause and consequence whose purpose is to work on the cause and consequence strategy. It is believed that this foundation that was presented in this work, will help all those who wish to overcome the challenges of the essays and become winners with a 1,000-note essay. This work concludes with an analysis of a 1,000-note essay, in which the cause and consequence were adopted as a strategy.