This is a text commentary on Home Rule in English, given orally. We will have three classes on how to do this. the classes will be based on a series of documents I will put up here on the blog fairly soon. Basically in the first class I will comment on documents, and in the following two classes student volunteers will do so.
If you should have agreed to comment on a document, and are unable, finally, to do so, please do contact me and not simply stay away from the class (I apologize for giving you such infantile advice, but this has happened more than once!)
One aspect of academic language which one must get practice with is "hedging". Academic analysis is made up of facts, certainties, probabilities and possibilities, and it is very important to be able to express the solidity (or not) of a statement. These sentences all speak of the same question.
Brexit will destroy the British economy.
Britain's economy will be fine outside the EU.
Some commentators are quite sure that leaving the EU will have dire economic consequences for Britain.
The reorganization of trade, separate from the European free market, may well cause unexpected difficulties which might take considerable time to be overcome.
Opponents of Brexit claim there will be disastrous effects, though evidence is hard to come by.
The first two are to be avoided at all costs.
This page will help further with hedging.
http://www.uefap.com/writing/feature/hedge.htm
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