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Feinberg, Susan – 1983
To determine if using visual patterns can help technically oriented people create coherent papers, 97 students enrolled in a beginning composition class were given five hours of instruction in the use of the "hub and spokes" (central idea supported by examples), "S-curve" (pro-con), and pyramid (inductive or deductive) formats. Holistic…
Descriptors: Coherence, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Technical Writing
Download full textTierney, Robert J.; Pearson, P. David – 1983
Readers as well as writers compose meaning. Using the same characteristics essential to effective writing--planning, drafting, aligning, revising, and monitoring--readers react creatively with the text. In response to the author's intention and their own knowledge base, they decide what they want to get from their reading. Constantly renegotiating…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Coherence, Language Processing, Prewriting
Langer, Judith A. – 1983
A study examined the effect of topic-specific background knowledge on the general quality and local coherence of student writing. Ninety-seven tenth grade students were assigned two writing tasks on specific topics at two points during a semester. J. Langer's measure of topic-specific knowledge was administered prior to each writing task. Each…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Coherence, Evaluation Methods, Grade 10
Hult, Christine A. – 1982
To examine the relationship between writers' knowledge of expository frames--conventions accepted by both writers and readers in association with a particular type of discourse--and writing skill, 60 persuasive essays were analyzed for content organization. The essays, evaluated as either above average or average on a high school writing…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
McCutchen, Deborah; Perfetti, Charles A. – 1982
Arguing that discourse coherence can provide a window on the writing processes that produce it, this paper describes developmental differences observed in children's writing and proposes a procedural model to account for those differences. The first section of the paper points out that a developmental model of the writing process should specify…
Descriptors: Coherence, Computer Assisted Testing, Connected Discourse, Developmental Stages
A Longitudinal Study of Coherence in Children's Written Narratives, March 31, 1981 - March 31, 1982.
Rentel, Victor M.; King, Martha L. – 1983
To understand and describe a developmental learning progression of choices students make in forming chains of relationships in their narrative texts, a study used the Cohesive Harmony Index to measure cohesion in children's written narratives. Data were obtained from 36 grade school children at intervals of four months over the students' first…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition)
