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| College Composition and… | 5 |
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| Berlin, James A. | 1 |
| Broadhead, Glenn J. | 1 |
| Brostoff, Anita | 1 |
| Freeman, Donald C. | 1 |
| Holloway, Dale W. | 1 |
| Vande Kopple, William J. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedBrostoff, Anita – College Composition and Communication, 1981
Suggests that teaching students to achieve coherence involves teaching them what it means to plan and to move up and down a hierarchy of abstraction as well as teaching them to build cohesive links into their writing. Describes a program for teaching coherence. (RL)
Descriptors: Coherence, College English, Higher Education, Paragraph Composition
Peer reviewedBroadhead, Glenn J.; Berlin, James A. – College Composition and Communication, 1981
Guidelines for connecting the rhetorical principles taught by Francis Christensen with concepts from sentence-combining in a plan to help students learn to invent and develop sentences. (RL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College English, Generative Grammar, Higher Education
Peer reviewedFreeman, Donald C. – College Composition and Communication, 1981
Considers "unpacking" or "deconstructing" sentences (the reverse of sentence combining) an effective teaching technique that helps students to develop clear predication and eliminate their tendency to use vague, confusing nominalized verbs. (RL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Peer reviewedHolloway, Dale W. – College Composition and Communication, 1981
Describes three semantic theories for teaching the writing process (case grammars, the "given-new" contract, and cohesion), with their implications for helping students communicate more effectively with their audiences. (RL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cohesion (Written Composition), Grammar, Higher Education
Peer reviewedVande Kopple, William J. – College Composition and Communication, 1982
Reports of research on using different patterns for connecting sentences. Shows the importance of applying insights from text linguistics to writing instruction. (RL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), High School Students
