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Download full textWitte, Stephen P.; Faigley, Lester – 1981
This report provides information drawn from a study that compared two components of the freshman English program at the University of Texas at Austin. The first chapter of the report contains background material and describes the two course components--the analytic option, which emphasizes writing skills in the context of complete pieces of…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Program Effectiveness, Writing Evaluation
Peer reviewedWitte, Stephen P.; Davis, Anne S. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1982
Investigates the question of T-unit length stability in informative discourse written by freshmen near the end of an intensive course in college writing. (HOD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Witte, Stephen P. – 1982
Writing research has long sought to identify the internal features of written discourse that help to explain qualitative differences among student texts. Reflecting the theories of the Prague School linguists, this study used a topical structure analysis to distinguish between the sentences and T-units of 48 college freshman essays evaluated as…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Linguistic Theory
