I& #39;m going heavy on grabbing examples from my students& #39; textbooks this term and I& #39;m currently scanning for circumstances so thought I& #39;d tweet some soft gaze observations as I go because they& #39;re kinda interesting.

Physics textbook: heavy on the location: place. NOT SURPRISING because this chapter is on forces. It& #39;s also about where and in what direction. Both where in the text, and where in the problem.

Also coming across some contingency: conditions, not only for the problems themselves, but for the instruction of WORKING THROUGH the problems. The pedagogic voice is interesting to identify.

Calculus textbook: I am fascinated by this one because it& #39;s REALLY FRIENDLY but does not fall into the trap of grammatical complexity to make it speech-like like I& #39;ve seen some do. Interesting circumstances: lots of manner: quality, often about choices of concepts and methods.

Completely forgot to tag #sysfunc for this thread.