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Anderson, Richard C.; And Others – 1995
A study investigated properties of children's naturally occurring arguments. The arguments were sampled from transcripts of 20 discussions held in 4 fourth-grade classrooms. The principal findings were that children's arguments are filled with seemingly vague referring expressions; that the arguments sometimes do not contain explicit conclusions;…
Descriptors: Children, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Grade 4