Adjective complement with noun phrase

• develop: Develop student discursive and interpretative skills through appropriate interactive and assessment activities.

Modifies a noun

• saturation: This form of activity is characterized by a high degree of discursive saturation.

• psychology: In this paper, I consider a possible approach derived from discursive psychology.

• formation: The weight of absence is alleviated by the resignation of the discursive formation based on presence.

• essay: A 1000 word discursive essay based on the oral presentation.

• construction: The discursive construction of the National Grid for Learning.

• writing: The report encouraged teachers to be able to show good discursive writing.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: Mitchell's piece on identities in Asia Minor is rather discursive, but all the better for it.

• fundamentally: It is a fundamentally discursive environment which takes the asynchronous discussion board as its central tool.

• thoroughly: This, we saw, is particularly true of philosophy which is thoroughly discursive.

• largely: Power was once largely discursive, But it now is largely informational.

• highly: The style is highly discursive, leap-frogging forward and backward across the decades, without ever sacrificing thrust or clarity.

• often: His tone is often discursive, distinctly American, and always deftly directed toward each poem's purposes.

Used with adjective complement

• become: With Light Reading, they created an environment which encouraged artists and viewers alike to become actively discursive within an intimate yet public arena.