The purpose of this study has been to investigate how the activity with causal linking words may contribute to developing pupils' oral reasoning skills in small groups. The empirical data has been collected through two qualitative research methods: open but passive observations and group interviews. The result has been analysed based on the presented theories and previous research. To investigate this purpose, two questions were formulated:  How can working with causal terms in combination with small group discussions help to develop pupils' oral reasoning skill? What is the significance of the interaction between the pupils for the way they work?  The activity used in the intervention, where the pupils had to put sentences together by placing concept cards and arrows, takes off in relevant previous research and the concept of collaborative support.  The result of the study indicates that the pupils feel that their causal reasoning is positively affected, by using linking words to develop their reasoning in small groups. However, there is still a need for pupils to learn about the meaning of linking words, and how to use them in the correct context.

In our information age, it is of the highest importance that information is easy to understand by as many members of the potential target audience as possible. The present study analyses and compares the readability of 20 newspaper articles, half from the tabloid Daily Mail and the other half from the broadsheet The Daily Telegraph. The methods used to analyse the articles are mathematic readability formulas based on sentence and word length, as well as analyses of the use of the active and the passive voice, type-token ratio, number of clauses per sentence, and linking words. The results do not completely align with each other. Three of the five methods – the readability formulas, the use of the passive voice, and clauses per sentence – suggest that the Daily Mail articles are easier to understand, whereas the type-token ratios imply the opposite, and the linking words results did not show a difference in readability.